galerie anne barrault
Tiziana la Melia , Italy
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"Kitten Healer Litter"
Galerie Anne Barrault is pleased to present Tiziana La Melia’s first solo exhibition in France. Less than a year after participating in “Lick the Toad,” a group exhibition at the gallery that marked the conclusion of her residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Montmartre, she presents paintings, installations, and a film in her third solo exhibition in France.
Following a six-month residency in Paris last year, “Kitten Healer Litter” is a domestic poem composed of multimedia works, including an episodic video that blends the structure of an Aesop’s fable with the aesthetic of a reality TV show about simple living; a collection of “cartoons” that also serve as sewing patterns, kitchen utensils, clothing, and improvised pictorial gestures—all narrated by an unreliable narrator.
In Montmartre, I developed a drawing titled Cat and Mouse (2024); it was inspired by an encounter with a damp wall in a former cheese-aging cellar while I was working in my hometown of Palermo, Sicily. The sea’s humidity was causing the plaster walls to flake, reminding me of my studies at the Palazzo Spinelli restoration school in Florence, where, at age 19, I practiced 13th-century fresco techniques based on Cennino Cennini’s treatise, sustained by a diet of honey, milk, green tea, and bread.
- Tiziana La Melia
Solo show of Tiziana La Melia
From April 29 to June 6, 2026
Rendez-Vous
Saturday 24 May 2025 at 2:00 pm
Guided tour of the show by Skye Arundhati Thomas – Galerie Anne Barrault
75003 Paris, France 09 51 70 02 43 galerieannebarrault.com
The gallery
"Ever since the start, the gallery anne barrault has devoted itself exceptionally to contemporary art with a focused commitment to the presentation of young artists.
It has presented many first solo exhibitions, such as those of Tiziana la Melia, Stéphanie Saadé, Guillaume Pinard or Jochen Gerner, along with established artists such as Daniel Spoerri or Roland Topor.
From its opening twenty years ago, galerie anne barrault has constantly built up new ties with different disciplines, as with Yona Friedman, the architect, who exhibited at the gallery, or the writer Pacôme Thiellement who curated a show and, more recently Marie Losier, the filmmaker, who had her very first gallery exhibition at galerie anne barrault in 2020.
In 2021 Anne Barrault once more highlighted a young talented artist, Neïla Czermak Ichti, with a solo show to present her works. In 2022, it was the turn of Liv Schulman and Rayane Mcirdi ; in 2023, Jagdeep Raina; and in 2024, Vimala Pons takes over the gallery space for the first time.
Many of the gallery’s artists have had their books published. Recently the fanzine Pleased to meet you dedicated its tenth edition to Marie Losier, and the artist Neïla Czermak Ichti published her first monograph in correspondance to her solo show with the gallery in 2021.
Every so often, the gallery invites an independent curator who proposes a singular exhibition : in 2017 Franck Balland curated an exhibition of Tiziana la Melia and in 2025, Skye Arundhati Thomas presented Lalitha Lajmi’s first solo exhibition."
Gallery artists
David B., Katharina Bosse, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Bertrand Dezoteux, Julie Doucet, Dominique Figarella, Jochen Gerner, Killoffer, Tiziana La Melia, Lalitha Lajmi, Marie Losier, Manuela Marques, Ramuntcho Matta, Rayane Mcirdi, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, Olivier Menanteau, Pierre Moignard, Guillaume Pinard, Vimala Pons, Jagdeep Raina, Tere Recarens, David Renaud, Stéphanie Saadé, Liv Schulman, Daniel Spoerri, Roland Topor, Alun Williams, Euridice Zaituna Kala
Galerie sélectionnée par Daria de Beauvais, Anaël Pigeat et Chris Cyrille Isaac
