Melissa Muggeo is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and armoured based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Her work places emphasis on research and experimental processes, exploring the combination of different media and engaging in various research methods. She is interested in both the tangible and the digital, particularly through sculpture, printing, installation, 3D modeling, weaving, and metalwork. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a specialization in design (2022) from Concordia University. Following her degree, she pursued in-depth research into metal weaving, sculpture, and wearable armor. This exploration led her to undertake training in metallurgy and jewelry (2025).
Through her speculative works, she explores narrative and imagination, mechanisms of protection, healing, and resilience, while questioning the relationships between humans, non-humans, and the environment. Her work engages with the duality of existence—where fragility and strength intertwine—and proposes contemplative spaces that invite reflection on the individual’s connection to their surroundings and the possibility of harmony through transformation.
Sculpture becomes a means to investigate repetition, the tension between vulnerability and defense, and processes of material and symbolic change. Working meticulously with chainmail, she constructs forms where each ring functions as both an individual unit and part of an interconnected whole. Clay, in contrast, retains the memory of touch, registering gesture and presence, and offering a tactile counterbalance to the cool, rigid qualities of metal. By combining these materials, she evokes the resilience of the body and spirit, the traces of movement, and the quiet strength found in metamorphosis. Her approach is both intuitive and research-based, allowing form, materiality, and process to reveal embedded narratives and relational possibilities.
Only in existence from effort, embodiment, and eternal research.
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