Melanie Bonajo
AKINCI, Amsterdam
@ Art Brussels 2023
20 – 23 April 2023
‘When the body says Yes’, Big Spoon, 2022
Ultra chrome, canson Lustre, museum glass, 62 x 110 cm
Courstesy the artist & AKINCI
Discovery SOLO project by MELANIE BONAJO (they/them/theirs). The focus is on Melanie Bonajo’s recent project When the body says Yes (2022), an immersive video installation. In the Discovery Booth for Art Brussels melanie bonajo would like to give a glimpse into the totality of this immersive project that approaches touch and intimacy shown at the Venice Biennale. They present photographs arranged around the video still as a wall-covering poster at the back wall. The viewers are invited to experience tactility and comfort by sitting on the specially composed seats that the artist has made in collaboration with Théo Demans. The photo works are still photographs by the artist of the film When the body says Yes, a project that involved a group of international gender queer people. Through the presentation at Art Brussels 2023 the artist carries the message further and create a moment of reflection about when the body says Yes and what it means to give consent to the senses.
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