The Lives of Animals

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“It is true that animals are usually not able to participate in their liberation, but they behave differently when they are liberated and have better living conditions.”
— Speaking Beyond Language: Lin May Saeed Interviewed

melanie bonajo

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08 June - 22 September 2024
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melanie bonajo is a Dutch artist who lives and works in Berlin. The artist makes videos, performances, photos and installations in which they explore how technological progress and com­pulsive consumption reinforce feelings of alienation. The artist sees unity, care, friendship and a return to the body as resistance to the capitalist system. Throughout their work, they focus on so­cial hierarchies, including those between humans and animals. 

In the experimental film Progress vs Sunsets, Re-Formulating the Nature Documentary (2017), bonajo asks prima­ry school children all kinds of questions about animal welfare and the environ­ment. The video has been edited to show the children in a virtual universe full of amateur videos of animals that bojano found on the internet. bonajo’s film explores how our relationship to nature has changed due to the popularity of such images, highlighting a perspective that is rarely given space in the social debate: the views of children. 

© image: M HKA

Exhibited work:

Progress vs Sunsets, Re-Formulating the Nature Documentary, 2017
Courtesy melanie bonajo & AKINCI

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