“Melina’s subjects emerge pure, new, free from artifice, essential and stripped of any kind of context because they have no intention of telling us anything nor or revealing anything about themselves. They suggest a journey, invite viewers to penetrate – perhaps curious, perhaps afraid – the darkness, emptiness, deafening silence that surrounds them and expands even beyond the painted space, flooding that which lies outside like thick smoke; enveloping and extremely alluring."
Carla Primiceri