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The touchscreen is what we hold in our hand most often and usually the first thing we reach for right after waking up. Technology and intimacy, two traditionally antithetical areas, are nowadays interconnected, both having transformed each other. In the everyday, technology has infiltrated our privacy. It has become the object of our notion and desire, our interlocutor and crutch, but also a dangerous confidant.The exhibition deals with how, after a virtual experience, further emphasized by a pandemic situation, the concept of our privacy and intimacy has changed and what effect it has on our close relationships. Through the work of nine young artists, it questions whether further development is bound for the likes of dystopian sci-fi or whether …

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗿𝗲́𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗻𝘂𝗶𝘁, 𝗨𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘂 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁. 𝗨𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗲̀𝗿𝗲𝘀, 𝗗𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗲́𝘀 𝗱𝗲́𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲. 𝗗𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘀’𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗨𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲̀𝗴𝗲, 𝗗𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗺𝗲́𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝘂 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. 𝗨𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀, 𝗡𝗼𝗻, 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝘇 𝗽𝗮𝘀   « 𝑁𝑎𝑖̈𝑎 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒́𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑜̂𝑚𝑒́𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝐷𝑒́𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠. 𝑆𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑎̀ 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑒 𝑎̀ 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑒́𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑚𝑠; 𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑒𝑙, 𝑙𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒́, 𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑢 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑠 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑢𝑥 𝑒́𝑙𝑒́𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.𝐿𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒 …

San Mei Gallery is pleased to present a new body of moving image and print-based works by Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby. Their collaborative practice seeks to unlock a slippery and unbounded visual language, one that attempts to defy categorisation. The peripheral bodies and slimy liminal spaces present within their work signifies a rejection of the here and now and points towards the reimagined potential of the not yet.  At the core of this work is a reimagining of the comic hero Swamp Thing, here read as a vessel for envisaging new and radical modes of collectivity. The artists …