Melanie Bonajo (NL), Kinga Kielczynska (PL) & Emmeline de Mooij (NL)

Born in 1978 in Heerlen, the Netherlands / Born in 1972 in Warsaw, Poland / Born in 1978 in Delft, the Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam / Lives and works in Warsaw and Berlin / Lives and works in Amsterdam and New York

Artists Melanie Bonajo, Kinga Kielczynska and Emmeline de Mooij have been working together on different, but interrelated, collaborative projects since 2007.

In 2007 Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska created ‘The Modern Life of the Soul’, a series of photographs in which the artists document an eco-extremist cult that reputedly lives in a forest in Eastern Poland.

In 2009 Bonajo collaborated with Emmeline de Mooij on a new series of photographs titled ‘Bush Compulsion: A Primitive Breakthrough in the Modern Mind’. These pseudo-ethnographic photos show two women who synthesise different ethnic traditions in an attempt to find a closer relationship with the natural world.

‘The woods that see and hear’ exhibition includes the video ‘Hunting Gathering’ (2009) that the three artists collaborated on together and which combines the various thematic threads developed in the two earlier series.

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