Marijke de Roover and David Haines in group exhibition Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) at Tallinn Art Hall

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) brings together sixteen international artists, explores the state of love and intimate relations in the age of the Internet, social media, neo-liberal capital and globalisation.

The exhibition probes the societal patterns and challenges as well as possibilities that the Internet and social media – and now the Covid-19 pandemic – present to our intimate relationships. The exhibition is curated by Katerina Gregos.

Digital technology and consumerism have significantly transformed love and social relationships. The experience of the virtual has increasingly dissolved the boundary between private and public. This influences how we communicate and interact with one another, especially with those closest to us. On the one hand, the Internet and social media have facilitated the expression of non-heteronormative identities, forms of desire, and alternative ways of being. On the other, they have played a problematic role in cultivating pathologies such as narcissism, obsessive self-performativity, digital dependency, and the commodification of emotion. The conflation of reality and fantasy has created complex psychological and relational entanglements, which are explored – among other things – in this exhibition. 

The exhibition Modern love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) is one of the largest productions of Tallinn Art Hall in recent years, which was produced as a multi-year project in collaboration with Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg (Germany).

Participating artists:

Gabriel Abrantes, Hannah Toticki Anbert, Melanie Bonajo, Laura Cemin, Benjamin Crotty, Marijke De Roover, Kyriaki Goni, David Haines, Juliet Jacques, Mahmoud Khaled, Maria Mavropoulou, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Kyle McDonald, Marge Monko, Peter Puklus, Margaret Salmon

 

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Publication date: 18 Jun '21