The New Dating Aesthetic: When a Profile Becomes a Performance
28 August 2026 • Gaston La-Gaffe
Swipe through any dating app today, and you are not looking at a stranger so much as a small, deliberate… Read More
Tag: Love
This valentine’s day Rankin investigates the future of love with a new exhibition
3 February 2020 • Mark Westall
Rankin says:
“When I first met my wife Tuuli, she literally took my breath away. But when I look at relationships in this new digital world, everything feels so solitary and at arm’s-length or, even worse, based on algorithms. I wanted to explore the ideas of romance and love in a positive and upbeat way. Where interaction and feelings are as important as swiping right or likes.”
Wanted: words of love
16 December 2008 • Dan Sumption
Artist Stephen Carley is collecting words/phrases that refer to the ‘chemical’ reaction that is love/lust/attraction/infatuation/etc’. Words/phrases could be quite obvious,… Read More