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Melanie Manos
Detroit, Michigan, US
Materia Gallery, Detroit
Bodywork
multi-channel video installation at The Pickle Factory, Detroit
Detroit Boom City exhibition, curated by Dashboard Cooperative May - June 2015
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Found Dodge fenders, steel, wood, pico projectors, speakers. Videos are viewed through foglight apertures and run on independent loops. Video content: activities
performed inside a vehicle including changing clothes,
eating, teeth brushing,napping,and learning Japanese.
Bodywork
Photo: Eric Wheeler
Body Work, installed at Detroit Boom City, May - June 2015
Bodywork
Bodywork
Photo: Eric Wheeler
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Bodywork responds to the site of a former pickle factory on Detroit's east side that was originally an auto factory and is currently used to store auto parts. The piece speaks to car culture, life on-the-go-in-the-car, and fetishizes the curves of the manufactured chrome-covered fenders.
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