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a clip of ALGO MATCH that uses the technology
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Our experience of sexuality, gender identity and identity fluidity is expanding beyond our imagination as evolving technologies increase who we meet, what we see, what we share. This exhibition offers a serious at times amusing view of the contemporary quest for love.
Sex, Desire and Data begins with
ALGO MATCH by
Club Sexu. You will be paired with four other people at a console table where you will be asked to put on dark glasses. There are two buttons to help the group decide democratically which character you want to interact with. The image on the left reveals one of the characters,
Bastien, and the style of representation of the piece. It reminded me of a game show and the experience is intriguing and amusing.
We then walk into a
RESULTS by
Sandra Rodriguez. By using artificial intelligence she created a series of interconnected videos that evoke sex scenes from pornography. The images are all AI generated and no human has contributed to the smushy pink orgie before your eyes. The work is also interactive and will react to your movements. Words appear suggesting sex acts like anal sex.
As you observe the wavy pulsating forms, you get the impression that you will spot a recognizable image, but they are only suggestions. A very cheeky piece.
HELLO , Confessional and Queering the map are installations where we are invited to chat with a transgender person, listen to confessions from the spectrum 2SLGBTQIA+ or leave one ourselves and read queer messages from around the world on an interactive map by touching a marker.
Vibrato is an installation that challenges questions of intimacy and pleasure as it suggests, in its red massiveness, various human pleasure points like nipples, buttocks, vaginas and dares you to play.
Finally, Show me yours confronts us with the daily life of those who earn their living as webcam sex workers. Sam Greffe and Juliette Langevin recreated the full experience using many technological tools and building a screen room like those where performers greet their clients. You can lie on the bed, interact with the technology and experience what the performer and the client experience. Sam Greffe told me they researched every aspect of this universal practice through seven practitioners and he was quite taken aback to observe how seriously the performers protect their privacy.
One of the most eloquent artist I have met, Moridja Kitenge Banza has many stories to weave. He is a brilliant colourist who is fascinated by lines as in palmistry or maps. He will spend hours painting the lines of his hands or exploring the trajectories on maps.
The paintings are well executed with crisp lines slicing the colour expanses of his luminous canvases. He is also inspired by photography. He is fascinated by space distance and their impacts on politics. As he was recounting the inspirations of his work and his origins in Congo I found out that of all the African countries Congo is different because of the influence of Dr. David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley.
On the third floor, Moridja recreates a multinational enterprise that makes its money by recycling racisme since, obviously, it seems to exist in infinite quantity.
This exhibition was curated by Cheryl Sims.
In the second building you will see Forgotten Traces by Amélie Brisson-Darveau and Pavrita Wickramasinghe where secondary 3 level students collaborate to examine the impacts of gentrification on their neighborhoods. You will see their photos documenting certains features of the buildings. There is an interactive area and a huge installation made from plaster casts of real sites. Daniel Fiset curated this project.
Finally, REMEMBER, PERFORM, FORGET: Binding Space Through Utopia Kerstin Honeit, The Society of Affective Archives, and Rodolfo Andaur curated by Victoria Carrasco is a series of meaningful gatherings that examine the role of public art. This intriguing event ends this week. Below, the events of the coming week. For all the information HERE.
LENA GHIO
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