Melanie Bonajo - Völkerschau - Capricious 2009

Catalogue with manipulated barite prints photographed in Zoo.
Völkerschau reflects on the way people treat animals by drawing parallels between idea’s of early colonialism, human zoo’s and contemporary attitudes towards animals, It warns of a future in which animals no longer exist, and have permanently moved their existence into the sphere of symbols. Due to the loss, people will sanctify animals. Ghosts of the past will fuse with the ghosts of the future, creating a cultural negative in which the mirror with a memory reflects not the past, but presents a desperate need for it; and mankind will keep merging himself more and more with the machine.
Artwork by Melanie Bonajo, design by Céline Wouters.

12pp - 28x20,5cm - softcover - very good condition