João Melo (1995, Porto) lives and works in Porto. His practice crosses sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, and audiovisual media. Starting from the body as an adaptive infrastructure, his work moves between internal and systemic spaces. It addresses extraction, digital agency, identity and ruin, and seeks to understand how emerging power structures, particularly technological ones, operate in shaping bodies, cultures and landscapes. These operations insert a mutable and speculative dimension into the works, activating fields of vibration that bring forth hybrid creatures and ritualistic configurations.

He graduated in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, having also studied at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo. His work has been featured in several publications and has been presented in exhibitions such as: Fulgor (Maia Contemporary Art Biennial, 2025), Um Salto no Espelho (Branda, 2024), Superfícies não orientáveis (Vila Flor Cultural Centre, 2024), A amplificação do mundo (Espaço Mira, 2024), Torcicolo antes do fim do mundo (Atelier Logicofobista, 2023), Para que é que isto interessa (Senhora Presidenta, 2022), aDrogaria (A Sede, 2022), Membro Fantasma (CRL – Central Elétrica, 2022), Dose 21 (Espaço Pontes, 2021), Poente (Arroz Estúdios, 2021), LIVING CITY PORTO (Cooperativa de Ramalde, 2021) and Cross your eyes (Ermo do Caos, 2021).