Melanie Manchot

Melanie's practice employs photography, video, film and sound to explore performative situations, often looking at the individual in relation to cultural and social conditions as well as to public space. The work is situated at the threshold between the documentary and staged events and frequently involves momentary collaborations with strangers.

Across distinct projects the practice examines potential meanings and formats of portraiture and its conflicting relationship to issues of subjectivity and representation. Many of the projects involve a performative process where the camera becomes an organising principle which structures the event.

Manchot is currently showing her first 35mm film 'Celebration' (Cyprus Street) at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. She has recently completed a British Council residency in Istanbul working on a series ofphotographs to be shown during the Istanbul Biennale in 2009 and her work is included in the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale (May - Sept 2009).

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