Featured exhibition - Stage View by Melanie Haberkorn

by Yvette Depaepe
Published the 8th of April 2024

This months' featured exhibition is titled 'Stage View' by Melanie Haberkorn.
A most interesting project which is currently exhibited in Barcelona, (Mediterranean House Of Photography, April 5 to April 21, 2024).

Melanie quotes : 'I love staging women to visualize psycological issues. The intention is to create images that contain fractures beneath a beautiful surface, probably with a touch of humor to make the seriousness of the subject more accessible. Therefore I use props and choose locations that give the pictures a whimsical touch or I manipulate my photos in post-processing to achieve a surreal result'.

Body image disorders have reached epidemic proportions in modern societies where a distorted ideal of the female body prevails. Unchanged, it seems to be nothing more than raw material that needs to be shaped in order to be socially accepted. The series Shapeable employs various mental illnesses as a consequence of our beauty-dominated times.

You can find out more about Melanie and her (more recent) work in the interview on 1x.

I invite you to explore this exceptional exhibition which will be exposed on our opening page / Gallery during the whole month of April 2024.
Click here to see the entire exhibition: [46] Melanie Haberkorn (1x.com)

To trigger your curiousity, here is a small compilation of images out of this exhibition visualizing several contemporary psychological issues.