Zoo World

Every year 700 million people visit a zoo.We stand in front of each enclosure for 46 seconds.We make the animals into objects, while the world that they really belong to is reduced, bit by bit. So we keep watching. And they try to accept the artificial world in which we have placed them. Since 2011 Julia Lindemalm has investigated the phenomenon of zoos. The project contains pictures from ten different zoos in Europe. But the geographic location is insignificant.The pictures portray the zoo on an existential level. By arranging nature according to our own desires, we distance ourselves from what we crave for – the wild. Zoo World illuminates our unrequited love for animals and questions our self-imposed role as masters of the world.