Cold Intimacy

Overview

With ever-smarter phones and all-consuming social media at our fingertips at all times, our lives have never been so saturated with images. Cold Intimacy, a new group exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery encourages us to reconsider the meaning of this very contemporary phenomenon. Together, four artists will quite rightly call into question the cultural dominance of the digital image.

Curated by the newly appointed Melissa Loughnan — who has previously founded the Melbourne art spaces Utopian Slumps and Slopes — the show brings together the innovative works of four Berlin-based artists. Expect sculpture and video from Alicia Frankovich and an installation by Simon Denny, (both New Zealanders), as well as the multi-form works of Netherlands-born Marlie Mul and Denmark's Nina Beier. Despite their differences in artistic media, the pieces all highlight a shared interest in the value of the digital image and its place in today's internet culture.

Image: Alicia Frankovich.