As a photographer Bonadies has devoted most of her career to investigate traditions, in her own words: the old manner of portraiture to represent power and “the Other”. Such visual analysis of human behavioral patterns
give her quest an anthropological tone, however, the main intention is to reveal the “new” and the changes that took place to get there. The elaboration of habitual records during her process creates visual “inventories” of human traits that ultimately reveal the real subject in Bonadies’ works: the backdrop or how Carlos Palacios referred to as - el Convidado de Piedra - the “Stone Guest”.

Patient in her search, Bonadies works in thematic series where process and systematic ways to record it become intrinsic to the work. Bonadies may present a point of view, she may even intend a narrative, but the irony of her approach is that when action is included, more is left unsaid.

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