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We’re delighted to share that Eva Papamargariti‘s work is included in Virtual Crush, a group exhibition curated by avatar-artist LaTurbo Avedon at SLASH in San Francisco.

On view until 19 September.

Avatar-artist and curator LaTurbo Avedon introduces Virtual Crush, a multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring seven international artists: Melissa Broder, Arvida Byström, Claudia Hart, Kira Kutcher, Kim Laughton, Eva Papamargariti, and Signe Pierce. The selected works, spanning 2009 to present, focus largely on representations of the simulated body, identity, and intimacy across this period. Virtual Crush: how do you read it? Does virtual modify crush, or crush modify virtual, or are they operating in both directions at once? The exhibition refuses to resolve that ambiguity. Virtual arrives here in its fullest sense: not the diminished copy, not the screen-mediated substitute for something more real elsewhere, but the field of difference and potential that precedes actualization. Crush names the intensity of that threshold: is it still cute and flirty? Or is it the pressure of becoming on the verge of form? Together they name a mode of time in which the event is always simultaneously not yet and already.Eva Papamargariti‘s Soft Touch (2015) addresses the moment when the Internet was no longer somewhere you went; it was something you carried against your body at all times. The virtual self (the profile, the curated feed, the interface persona) had become continuous with the physical self rather than separate from it. Seeking desire and intimacy through the App Store. The love letter now an interface event. Papamargariti bends the body past its structural limits because that is what was happening: the virtual body in acceleration. In Soft Touch’s simulated water and pixelated diamonds, a crumpled, dithered note reads: I love you more than I love my phone.

Featuring Melissa Broder, Arvida Byström, Claudia Hart, Kira Kutcher, Kim Laughton, Eva Papamargariti, and Signe Pierce.