Melanie Bonajo - Night Soil
16 September - 7 December 2016

Foam presents the first major museum solo exhibition by Amsterdam and New York based Melanie Bonajo, who holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has become an unconventional artist working in different disciplines including photography, video, installations, publications, performance and music. An interesting feature is her anarchist approach and her dynamic ability to constantly escape social conventions.

Since 2012, Melanie Bonajo has been working on her video trilogy Night Soil. In semi-documentary style, she explores how modern man does everything to fight feelings of fragmentation and alienation, caused by technological progress and the temptations of the consumer culture. New rituals, a different relationship with nature and shifting ideas about gender fill a nagging sense of emptiness. Melanie Bonajo portrays this in an enthused, graceful and sometimes absurdist way and is not afraid to include herself. Foam premieres the third and final part of the trilogy, Nocturnal Gardening. The videos are presented in an installation in which the visitor is submerged.

Next Level
From the autumn of 2015, with the support of Ammodo, Foam presents the exhibition series Next Level, aimed at introducing a wider public to innovative art by relatively young artists who are making radically new use of the medium of photography.

Melanie Bonajo - Night Soil is supported by the Mondrian Foundation and by Stichting Dommering Fonds. We are grateful to Stichting Foam Friends and the Foam Fund for their generous support for this exhibition.


Calendar Foam: www.foam.org/museum/programme/melanie-bonajo

Press Release: www.foam.org/about/press-office/melanie-bonajo