“Sending You My Love,” Group Exhibition Asks What Love Looks Like in a Pandemic
“Sending You My Love” features a curated selection of unique works created using Playform No-Code AI by artists Chellcy Reitsma, Domenico Barra, J. Rosenbaum, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Noortje Stortelder, Roxy Savage, and Seda Turec. Curated by Playform Studio.
This is Fine, Playform AI, Rosenbaum 2021
Playform Studio Valentine's Day Exhibition
“Sending You My Love” asks what love might look like during an era of virtual connection. Throughout the course of the global pandemic, humans adapted to a new normal, where love and the expressions of it were required to change. The seven featured artists explore what this type of love looks like through photography, digital manipulation and video work. “This exhibition demonstrates both the complexities and capabilities of human connection,” said contributing curator Mirabelle Alan, “and the ways in which technology has become integral to expressions of love has perhaps shifted how we view the digital world.”
“Sending You My Love,” 2021
Chellcy Reitsma
The Kiss (Isolated), Playform AI, Reitsma 2021
Based in Malta, Dutch-American artist Chellcy Reitsma’s artistic practice spans from choreography, songwriting, as well as installation, film, painting, and more. Situated in several interdisciplinary mediums, Reitsma expands her body of work with Playform AI as a featured artist in the exhibition.
“I imagined 'The Kiss (Isolated)' trying to manage kissing 'safely' during the pandemic. For 'Secure Connection', I visualized what a secure online connection for an overseas video call might look like and the frustration one has when the connection fails. For 'Secure Connection', I visualised what a secure online connection for an overseas video call might look like and the frustration one has when the connection fails. 'Wrapped Heart' embodies the internal struggle we all experience trying to connect with others safely during the pandemic. It's the little bubble we all wish we had to roam around in and interact with one another safely.”
Domenico Barra
Italian digital-media artist Domenico Barra explores the technological landscape, challenging notions of “error, limit, the unexpected, diversity, fragility, imperfection and glitch.” Barra’s works have previously exhibited at the DAM Gallery in Berlin, the Media Center in New York, the Galerie Charlot in Paris, the Digital Art Center in Taipei, among many other art institutions, galleries and cultural events worldwide.
“The pandemic and the consequent health emergency has turned our body into a frontier. Human relations have been limited, distance is among the main safety procedures to respect to guarantee the stopping of the spreading of the new Coronavirus. A kiss could be the beginning of a chain of contagions.
Will this situation affect the way we relate to each others on an emotional level? Will we fear a kiss? Will we be afraid to love? Will the pandemic affect our passion? Kissing will be perceived as an irresponsible act?
This is a message of love. In loving memory of those who have lost their loved one and to those who will still love but will have to deal with the fear. Love will make us stronger.”
TOXIC LOVE, GHOST LIPS & LOST KISSES, Playform AI, Barra 2021
“Will this situation affect the way we relate to each others on an emotional level? Will we fear a kiss? Will we be afraid to love?”
Domenico Barra
J Rosenbaum
Via Zoom, Playform AI, Rosenbaum 2021
J. Rosenbaum is a Melbourne AI artist and researcher working with 3D modeling, artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies. Their work explores posthuman and postgender concepts using classical art combined with new media techniques and programming.
“I worked with vintage photographs of queer couples from around the time of the early 1900s pandemic. The images are haunting, a little sad and a reminder that we endure and will continue to endure. Photographs such as these are love letters from our past and show the power of the human spirit to triumph over adversity. They are couples in love, during a time when it was not safe to be queer. It shows how far we have come.”
“Photographs such as these are love letters from our past and show the power of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.”
J Rosenbaum
Martin Lukas Ostachowski
Cloud Sphere Flower, Playform AI, Ostachowski 2021
Martin Lukas Ostachowski is an artist based in Canada who explores geometric abstraction and minimalism using physical and digital languages through the use of technologies like blockchain.
The artist’s main subject in his body of work are the textures and shapes of clouds. In “Cloud Sphere Flower,” the artist produces a spheric structure which resembles a cloud, composed of generative petals and flowers.
Seda Turec
Based in Istanbul, Seda Turec received her Masters degree in Design and Technology. The artist combines technological skill and practice with design in “Heart Beat.”
“As the human nature orientates our behaviors and conceptions, we all want to live in a society and want to feel safe. Human psychology and unconsciousness enlightens the questions of existence which human beings can never answer throughout their lives. The question is: why do people exist? To love? To belong someone? or just a heartbeat is enough?”
Seda Turec
Heart Beat, Playform AI, Turec 2021
Noortje Stortelder
Based in Rotterdam, digital artist Noortje Stortelder explores the human experience. In line with technological developments and due to a lack of resources and studio space she started to experiment with manipulating images from home using photography, film and creative software and this has kept her consistently curious.
"I want to give the viewer a new experience. This experience is based on my own reality and search for life, meaning of existence and purpose on earth. Who am I in relation to time, space and other beings? How do others see themselves and the world?”
Love - Hug, Playform AI, Stortelder 2021
Roxy Savage
Roxy is an interdisciplinary artist investigating female identity and domestic space. She explores domestic life, the natural world, and social justice through analog and digital processes. The artist is based in Connecticut.
“Love Potion” was inspired by the Covid 19 vaccination, the song Love Potion #9 (The Coasters, 1963); and the act of drinking a magic potion to make you fall in love! “(Hearts) On Fire” depicts the morphing of a chair and a human. The image suggests the collapsing effects of love or heartbreak spreading like wildfire through the body. “True Love” depicts two red creatures gleefully sharing a love connection on a pandemic walk in the woods.”
(Hearts) on FIre, Playform AI, Savage 2021
