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Face Off a performance by Victoria  MelodyOur curator Victoria Melody will be performing Face Off at Factory. Here’s her tale of how it came about! “I obtained this E-fit software by deception from the USA. To achieve this I fabricated a story about testing the software with a view to purchasing it for our fictitious Brighton Police Department. If I had of been an American citizen I would have received a free gun with the purchase.I am interested in this software mainly because it is ideologically dubious and inaccurate. There are more small lip options then any other category, does that mean criminals are more likely to have little lips? Also facial composite system theory has a dodgy supremacy overtone. In the past the inventor of photo fit Jacques Perry linked personality to facial features, “simpletons possess a receding forehead”.This performance involves the creation of live portraits using E-fit (Photo fit) software and a laptop computer. The sitter poses for their E-fit portrait, which is then printed and positioned on a gallery wall alongside a photograph. Each sitting takes between 5 and 10 minutes, this includes the taking of the photograph, the E-fit portrait and the computer printouts. Face Off has been performed at Concrete and Glass Festival in London and Supper Club in Brighton. Victoria Melody’s work deals with everyday life and often has the quality of ethnographic observational research projects. She is fascinated with that which remains unsaid, unheard, unseen, and unfelt-making visible the invisible. These (often humorous) video and performance works respond to the rules and stereotypes that define our national identity and character. What appears to be suburban or domestic can turn into something political or steeped in ritual. Victoria is a curator, filmmaker and performer, showcasing Nationally and Internationally including Artsway, New Forest; Centre for Contemporary Art, Russia; Study Gallery, Poole and Arts Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin. As part of a solo exhibition a publication entitled ‘Ventilation’ was commissioned by and available from Millais Gallery, Southampton. Victoria has performed, curated and worked with Station House Opera, Billy Cowie and ‘Supper Club’, The Basement, Brighton. She is supported by Arts Council England and The Basement. Zoom

Face Off a performance by Victoria  Melody

Our curator Victoria Melody will be performing Face Off at Factory. Here’s her tale of how it came about!

“I obtained this E-fit software by deception from the USA. To achieve this I fabricated a story about testing the software with a view to purchasing it for our fictitious Brighton Police Department. If I had of been an American citizen I would have received a free gun with the purchase.

I am interested in this software mainly because it is ideologically dubious and inaccurate. There are more small lip options then any other category, does that mean criminals are more likely to have little lips? Also facial composite system theory has a dodgy supremacy overtone. In the past the inventor of photo fit Jacques Perry linked personality to facial features, “simpletons possess a receding forehead”.

This performance involves the creation of live portraits using E-fit (Photo fit) software and a laptop computer. The sitter poses for their E-fit portrait, which is then printed and positioned on a gallery wall alongside a photograph. Each sitting takes between 5 and 10 minutes, this includes the taking of the photograph, the E-fit portrait and the computer printouts. Face Off has been performed at Concrete and Glass Festival in London and Supper Club in Brighton.

Victoria Melody’s work deals with everyday life and often has the quality of ethnographic observational research projects. She is fascinated with that which remains unsaid, unheard, unseen, and unfelt-making visible the invisible. These (often humorous) video and performance works respond to the rules and stereotypes that define our national identity and character. What appears to be suburban or domestic can turn into something political or steeped in ritual.


Victoria is a curator, filmmaker and performer, showcasing Nationally and Internationally including Artsway, New Forest; Centre for Contemporary Art, Russia; Study Gallery, Poole and Arts Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin. As part of a solo exhibition a publication entitled ‘Ventilation’ was commissioned by and available from Millais Gallery, Southampton. Victoria has performed, curated and worked with Station House Opera, Billy Cowie and ‘Supper Club’, The Basement, Brighton. She is supported by Arts Council England and The Basement.


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