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https://melivarley.co.uk/intersecting-language-and-sculpture-(language,-material,-space) 2026-07-19T12:40:39+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y3035448054042722154355301532100/page-17.jpg ‘<div style="text-align: center">I’ve always found that phrase, and similar phrases, fascinating. I really like that the drawing doesn’t only illustrate the phrase, but seems to do something with it. The elephant fully there in one image, then only partly visible/leaving in another, and somehow the room feels changed by both—by its presence and its almost-absence (presence-absence-trace?). I also really like “notes on language and taking up space” next to the drawings—it makes me think about how something social or hard to name can become almost material, or leave a trace even when it isn’t fully visible but not simply invisible either. And maybe why some things are easier to approach obliquely, through phrases, images, or other metaphors, rather than directly.’ Mercedes in her email to me </div><br /> <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V3035488185340282879106452275652/786a5b88-1444-498b-996c-0e4876dbe7f4.png https://melivarley.co.uk/green-elephants 2026-07-19T12:40:39+00:00 always 0.5 https://melivarley.co.uk/how-do-the-man-who-never-threw-anything-away-and-my-photographic-images-of-the-installation-present-memory-as-constructed-through-archival-systems-of-selection-rather-than-through-lived-experience 2026-07-19T12:40:39+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U3005631068723563688936904049092/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-20.51.41.png Figure 1. Meli Varley, View from the installation’s doorway into the museum, Ilya Kabakov’s The Garbage Man, 2025, digital photograph, National Museum, Oslo.<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S3005633063517574331740396700100/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-20.54.44.png Figure 2. Meli Varley, View of the corridor, Ilya Kabakov’s The Garbage Man, 2025, digital photograph, National Museum, Oslo. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W3005634400223990144955635450308/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-20.55.53.png Figure 3. Meli Varley, View of the left side of the archive room, Ilya Kabakov’s The Garbage Man, 2025, digital photograph, National Museum, Oslo.<br /> <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z3005636002674201084030674780612/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-20.57.22.png Figure 4. Meli Varley, View of the right side of the archive room, Ilya Kabakov’s The Garbage Man, 2025, digital photograph, National Museum, Oslo.<br /> <br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y3005637438513419549361043915204/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-20.58.37.png Figure 5. 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