Love Shots
Today love (-life in general) is on the screen through the screen,
most of the time.
Our precious time....
Just a screen with lights and colours and artificial sounds and floating words.
Anxious beeps and spontaneous conversations
that becomes infinite.
most of the time.
Our precious time....
Just a screen with lights and colours and artificial sounds and floating words.
Anxious beeps and spontaneous conversations
that becomes infinite.
This project explores the way we live through screens, how we love through these constant, non-stop images and what it allows us to become. It became clear to me one rainy autumn day in Cuenca when my pololo was visiting me. We are in the same town, the same university building having one of our regular screen fights - I can tell you it is intense (and insane). The messages keeps raining in on my phone while I’m pouring it right back at him, thunder and lightning worse than that same day in Castilla- La Mancha. It is a true, contemporary love story.
I collected hundreds of screenshots of message interactions I had had with my partner at the time, over a period of roughly six months. These images of conversations are put together in a video-loop and added sound, the notification sound of “new message” from WhatsApp. The beeping sound intensifying the experience for the spectator, creating an uncomfortable atmosphere that accompanies the tension of my messages sent to the other side.
The corresponding messages received from him are blurred with the intention of 1. Not exposing him publicly and 2. Confronting myself with my own “through-the-screen” behaviour; how the screen allows us to say anything we want without any “real” reaction (IRL the other person would use body language, expressions, show feelings, reject you) something that allows us to keep on going, way longer than we probably should and otherwise would do. On top of the possibility of simply turning off your phone just adds to the toxicity of these interactions.
2018
2018