Saul Melman's 'Stretched and Still Lies the Midnight' Installed in Turin's Barriera di Milano

American artist Saul Melman (born 1968, Baltimore) has created a photographic collage for a billboard on the roundabout of Piazza Bottesini in Turin, as part of the Opera Viva Barriera di Milano project in collaboration with the Flashback fair. The work, titled 'Stretched and Still Lies the Midnight,' depicts laundry hung on a clothesline with an industrial pulley, referencing Turin's automotive history. The image follows traffic flow and interacts with the surrounding park. Melman, who trained as a doctor before earning an MFA in sculpture, often creates site-specific works; his permanent installation at MoMA PS1 transformed an abandoned boiler. The title borrows from a Walt Whitman poem about war, connecting to a nearby monument to the Alpini. The artist burned a pair of red socks in the image, adding a darker layer. The project is curated by Christian Caliandro and runs until September 30, 2016. Melman is also working on handmade paper at Dieu Donné Papermill in New York and continuing his Heliogram Series in Joshua Tree, California.