Virtual Crush

Avatar-artist and curator LaTurbo Avedon introduces Virtual Crush, a multi-disciplinary 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. The exhibition is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.