On Friday, September 11th, there will be an opening reception for Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo‘s show Captive Lives Western Spectacle at Capricious Space in Brooklyn from 7-10pm. Bonajo recently talked about her project, which deals with the relations between humans and animals, at too much chocolate:

“While taking these images I started to study animals from a perspective of the future in which they would no longer be here. Animals would be the inhabitants of an old civilization and the only remaining evidence of their existence would be in images. Like now some animals are only surviving in zoos. People will start to socialize them and the holy animal cult will come to existence. They will use old animistic beliefs to revive what is lost forever. Animals will start to re-appear in people’s lives as ghosts. In the night when the lights are off, their spirits will appear through transpersonal awareness in dreams and people will suffer when they realize the brutality of their acting that led to extinction.”

Captive Lives Western Spectacle will be at Capricious Space, 103 Broadway, Brooklyn, until October 31st.