Published 4 SEP 2024
Bod Mellor
People Who Knock on the Door
Opening – 10 SEP 2024, 6-9 pm
10 SEP until 9 NOV 2024
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin / Image © Graysc
During Berlin Art Week, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi presents Bod Mellor’s first exhibition with the gallery titled People Who Knock on the Door. Mellor shows a new series of paintings that picture a number of prison workers performed by screen actors on British television. Not strict portraits, Mellor’s paintings symbolically rework images that represent the at once banal and omnipotent character of the carceral system, point to the mediation of the actor-camera-painter, and evoke “meet-the-team” staff photos we might see on noticeboards in state institutions.
Bod Mellor
Wing Governor Jim Fenner (Jack Ellis)
2024
Oil on linen
76.2 x 61 cm
Unique
BOM/P 21
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin / Image © Graysc
Bod Mellor
Prison Officer Mandy Goodhue (Angela Bruce)
2024
Oil on linen
76.2 x 61 cm
Unique
BOM/P 37
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin / Image © Graysc
Bod Mellor
Prison Officer Eric McNally (Stephen Graham)
2024
Oil on linen
76.2 x 61 cm
Unique
BOM/P 30
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin / Image © Graysc
Bod Mellor (*1970), formerly Dawn Mellor, has had solo exhibitions at the Neuer Essener Kunstverein; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea; and Studio Voltaire, London. Their work has also been shown at Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof; Kunstverein Hamburg; Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius; Limerick City Art Gallery; Museum Arnhem; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; MoMA P.S.1, New York; and Tate Liverpool.