[Text TBC] Painting smaller formats for his exhibition in Paris has allowed Melgaard to engage in a more intimate and psychological tête-à-tête with his female alter-ego. The animalized figure of Eliza- beth Wurtzel on candy-coloured blue, green or pink backgrounds haunts his paintings as an obscure object of his different feelings and desires. In his eyes these characters (either in his paintings, novels or other artistic fields) are like “signatures” and Melgaard sees his new paintings “as portraits of me and Elisabeth and maybe also of how I can feel and relate to her ideas and writings, especially about addiction.”