“When the physique says Sure,” is a an immersive set up by Dutch artist melanie bonajo. melanie bonajo (they/them), is a queer non-binary Dutch artist, filmmaker, sexological bodyworker, and somatic intercourse coach and educator. The video set up, initially commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund for the Biennale Arte 2022, is a part of the artist’s ongoing analysis into the present standing of intimacy in our more and more alienating, commodity-driven world. For bonajo, contact generally is a highly effective treatment for the fashionable epidemic of loneliness. 

By means of their movies, performances, pictures and installations, bonajo examines present conundrums of co-existence in crippling capitalistic techniques, and deal with themes of eroding intimacy and isolation in an more and more sterile, technological world. 

They analysis how technological advances and commodity-based pleasures improve emotions of alienation, eradicating a way of belonging in a person, and their works current anti-capitalist strategies to reconnect, discover sexualities, intimacies and emotions. Their experimental documentaries typically discover communities dwelling or engaged on the margins of society, both by means of unlawful means or cultural exclusion, and the paradoxes inherent to concepts of consolation with a robust sense for group, equality, and body-politics. 

at IMMA—Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
till October 20, 2024