EMST: Modern Love – Love in the years of cold intimacy

“Modern Love. Love in the years of cold intimacy” is the large group exhibition of the EMST, with which the museum’s new exhibition cycle begins on 12/15. It focuses on digital technology and the internet, their influence on modern societies and their relationship to work, the body and speech. It is an exhibition about love and close human bonds in the age of late capitalism, globalization, digital interconnection and social media.

Take part 5 Greeks and 19 international artists from 14 countries, many of whom are presenting their work for the first time in Greece. The exhibition is the product of ongoing research and comes to EMST after presentations at the Museum für Neue Kunst-Museum of Contemporary Art in Freiburg in Germany, the Kunsthalle in Tallinn, the IMPAKT Media Organization and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.

“Modern Love” examines how the internet and social media have, on the one hand, facilitated the expression of different identities and alternative ways of being and constructing the self, and how, on the other hand, they have played an aggravating role in the cultivation of pathologies such as narcissism , the obsession with self-promotion, digital addiction and the commodification of emotion.

The exhibition borrows its subtitle from Eva Iluz’s book, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, which analyzes how contemporary close, intimate relationships are increasingly defined by economic and political models of negotiation and exchange.

This major group exhibition will be followed by a series of solo exhibitions in January 2023, which focus on the impact of digital technology, the internet, social media and the economy they produce on social relations and modern life.

ARTISTS

GABRIEL ABRANTES (1984, US/PT)
ANDREAS ANGELIDAKIS (1968, GR)
MELANIE BONAJO (1978, NL)
CANDICE BREITZ (1978, ZA)
LAURA CEMIN (1992, IT)
BENJAMIN CROTTY (1979, US)
SUNDAY PARENT (1982, GR)
DAVID HAINES (1969, UK)
JULIET JACQUES (1981, UK)
SANAM KHATIBI (1979, IR/BE)
MAHMOUD KHALED (1982, EG)
DURAN LANTINK (1988, NL)
ARIANE LOZE (1988, BE)
MARIA MAVROPOULOU (1989, GR)
LAUREN LEE MCCARTHY (1987, US)
KYLE MCDONALD (1985, US)
MARGE MONKO (1976, EE)
Eva Papamargaritis (1987, GR)
PETER PUKLUS (1980, RO/HU)
GIORGOS PRINOS (1977, GR)
MARIJKE DE ROOVER (1990, GR)
MARGARET SALMON (1975, US/UK)
HANNAH TOTICKI (1984, DK)
ISTVÁN ZSÍROS (1985, HU)

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