This Thursday the Swedish photographer Julia Lindemalm opens her exhibition Zoo World at Abecita Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden.
Picture from Julia Lindemalm’s project Zoo World. The picture was a part of the original Diploma Project made at DMJX and it’s a part of Julia’s upcoming exhibition at Abecita Konstmuseum.
Former student Julia Lindemalm began working on her project about Zoo’s at DMJX in 2011. The project was her final diploma exam.
Picture from Julia Lindemalm’s project Zoo World. The picture was a part of the original Diploma Project made at DMJX and it’s a part of Julia’s upcoming exhibition at Abecita Konstmuseum.
In the past five years Julia Lindemalm has continued the project and she has visited ten zoos in Europe and also photographed at Sea World in Florida, USA. Julia focusses on how humans keep wild animals in captivity and our relationship to wild animals.
Julia writes this in her intro text to the exhibition:
“Every year 700 million people visit a zoo worldwide. We stand in front of each enclosure for 46 seconds. By arranging nature according to our own desires, we distance ourselves from what we crave – the wild. Zoo World illuminates our unrequited love for animals and questions our self-imposed role as masters of the world.”