Collection: Rafael Melendez

Rafael Melendez works across publication, performance, and institutional critique. His practice uses authorship, repetition, and image circulation as unstable materials.

Operating at the edge of postmodern appropriation and conceptual publishing, Melendez produces under several registers, including the pseudonymous imprint The Academy of Realness. Its pamphlets, folded publications, and printed documents function as theory-objects, exhibition ephemera, and autonomous works.

The works gathered here were published by Rafael Melendez through art fairs, exhibitions, and related contexts. Each operates as printed matter, artwork, and record. Authorship, function, and status remain open.