{"id":1402,"date":"2016-09-16T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2017-09-08T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:06:11","slug":"melanie-bonajo-night-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/2016\/09\/melanie-bonajo-night-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Bonajo – Night Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commissioned by<\/strong>\u00a0Foam<\/a><\/p>\n

Artist<\/strong>
\nMelanie Bonajo<\/a><\/p>\n

Exhibition design<\/strong>
\nClemence Seilles<\/a> and Theo Demans.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Curator<\/strong>
\nKim Knoppers<\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n16 September – 7 December 2016<\/p>\n

Exhibition Brochure<\/a><\/p>\n

Since 2012 Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo, who lives and works in Amsterdam and New York, has been working on her trilogy\u00a0Night Soil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Night Soil\u00a0is a series of experimental semi-documentary films about cultural phenomena that contradict the linear progression of the capitalist system. Each\u00a0Night Soil\u00a0film explores trends that move outside the sociological and political norms of consumer society, most of them illegal. Bonajo presents her first major solo museum exhibition in Foam, for which all three video works will be united.<\/p>\n

Night Soil #1\/ Fake Paradise\u00a0looks at the healing effect of the hallucinatory herbal drug Ayahuasca \u2013 used in the Amazon rainforest for a thousand years \u2013 on the mind and spirit of modern humans.Night Soil #2\/ Economy of Love\u00a0portrays a group of female sex workers in Brooklyn and attempts to change our ideas about intimacy.\u00a0Night Soil #3 \/ Nocturnal Gardening, which examines radical and innovative ways to produce food, has\u00a0its premiere at Foam.<\/p>\n

NEXT LEVEL
\n<\/strong>Since 2015, Foam has been organising the\u00a0Next Level\u00a0exhibition series with support from Ammodo. The series aims to introduce a broad audience to the innovative art of relatively young image-makers who take a revolutionary approach to the medium of photography. The first exhibition in the Next Level series was E_M E R G E by Anne de Vries, curated by Kim Knoppers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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