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Alicia Kopf

Speculative Intimacy

arts
11 september to 20 november 2020
running times vary
Fidelidade Arte
Alicia Kopf

The exhibition by the Catalan artist and writer Alicia Kopf takes place within the scope of the Chain Reaction project. With its starting point on the laws of attraction of celestial bodies and their possible analogy in the field of human relations, the exhibition Speculative Intimacy that Alicia Kopf brings to the Chain Reaction cycle traces a diagnosis of new forms of intimacy in the era of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. More specifically, the videos, drawings and texts gathered in this exhibition construct a double movement among themselves. On the one hand, they look to the most recent developments in cosmology and quantum physics for glimpses of a comprehensive law of the behavior of bodies: a law so complete that it explains the mechanics of what impels us to the Other, that it eventually reveals the nature of that peculiar energy that we call love. On the other hand, these works lead us to face the virtualization that new technologies promise to impose on the forms and experiences of that same love: the mobile phone screen as a sensual stronghold of interpersonal contacts, the mirage of pleasure at the distance of a click, the isolation paradox of ultra-connectivity, seduction transcribed in the form of an algorithm.

Monday to Friday, from 11am to 7pm


Credits:

Curated by Bruno Marchand

Location:

Largo do Chiado, 8 213 237 457 https://www.fidelidadearte.pt/

fidelidadearte@fidelidade.pt