CYBERLOVE
2019
sketchbook drawings, Vienna
Fineliner 0.25 mm and coloured pencils on sketchbook paper, 42 x 29.7cm
Courtesy of the artist
These drawings illustrate various dialogues conducted through sex and dating apps. Through the sending of nude photos, searching for love or casual fun leads to a strange kind of acceptance of one’s own nudity, or a series of mutual and superficial touches. Comic-like dialogues illustrate the limitless ideas of everyone involved. The language used while chatting is reduced to a minimum, and the fictional universe of smartphones seems to develop a new system of coding through routinely learned shortenings, such as the listing of sex preferences and finding the right person for sex/ dating. This coding appears strange when we look at it again; it is as if we are going backwards intellectually. With these drawings I address the phenomenon of "wanting to delete yourself" and museum-ise a collection of selfishness, loneliness and life in isolation.
Artist’s Bio:
I was born in Slovakia but live and work in Vienna as a freelance artist. I describe the content of my work as critical confrontations with identity issues, especially confrontations experienced by different groups that are excluded from society. The starting points of my work are new, experimental forms of drawing as forms of resistance to exclusion and racism. I belong to the Roma ethnic group, but don’t define myself as a Roma artist. My work shows a much more persistent interest in multiple questions of diverse and convertible identity and in the queer body and its existence, in different physical and mental bodies, in relation to normative society and its boundaries.