According to P·P·O·W Gallery these photographs in series by Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo are exercises in confronting the impositions placed on material possession and the self. Bonajo states, "We live in the human era...We are the architects of the human universe...We think that being able to reflect by reason sets us apart or above nature. But being a symptom of the earth, human beings are therefore bounded to the laws of Nature...Our psychic landscape is a reflection of our inside and shapes our external surroundings. This evidence in matter is a consequence of our thought system and a symbolic expression of our time."
There is an exhibition catalog available, produced by Kodoji Press, Switzerland.
Melanie Bonajo was born in Heerlen, The Netherlands in 1978 and studied Photography and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Institute Neérlandais/Paris, Stedelijk Museum/ Amsterdam, Fette Gallery/Los Angeles, Bongout Gallery/Berlin, Mad Vicky Tea Gallery/Paris, Modern Art Museum/Lublijana, Kohun Museum of Modern Art/Seoul and Photofestival Allepo/Syria. Bonajo was the winner of the Dutch Young Artist Award 2003, and winner of the Bookprice Pup Award 2007. Her work has been published in Capricious, Foam-magazine,Livraison, Famous Magazine, and Mollusk, among others. She currently is a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
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