“Rather than using craft for romantic commentary, she holds a facetious and slightly cruel mirror to our new dating habits.”
Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art
The first sustained critical reading of the tapestries: Debatty places the work against the history of craft as commentary and argues that it turns its irony on contemporary dating rather than on romance itself. Republished by HOLO.
Tanni reads the tufted tapestries alongside the wider aesthetics of internet culture, from screenshot vernacular to the imagery of automated companionship.
The tapestry I’m Not the Only One Wondering is presented on air by curator Valentina Péri, during a roundtable hosted by Usbek & Rica on programmable emotion.
A feature on the Dating Fatigue series: the exhaustion of contemporary dating, bodies hidden behind algorithms, and the repetitive cycle of digital desire.
Exhibition review of the group show at 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg, presented within GIBCA Extended.
A long-form interview on how a screenshot becomes a tapestry, and on the slowness of tufting as an answer to the speed of the exchanges it records.
A short review of the swiping works, on the position the viewer is placed in when a private message is enlarged to the scale of a wall.
An academic case study devoted to the 2022 self-marriage performed in the metaverse.
Exhibition catalogue for the touring show, in which I have been sending him a ‘loading’ sign… was exhibited.
Sologamy (2016) was covered internationally by the Daily Mirror (UK), Closer (UK and France) and others. press dossier (PDF).
