ARTIST PROFILE

Marton Nemes

  • Hungary (b. 1986 in Székesfehérvár)
  • Currently in London, United Kingdom.

REPRESENTATION

Ghosting Love01

Ghosting Love01

  • 2019
  • Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, Wood
  • 92 x 144 cm
  • Ghosting Love - thumbnail Ghosting Love05(She) - thumbnail Ghosting Love05(He) - thumbnail Ghosting Love - thumbnail Ghosting Love - thumbnail Ghosting Love - thumbnail Ghosting Love - thumbnail Ghosting Love02 - thumbnail Ghosting Love01 - thumbnail Ghosting Love - thumbnail Ghosting Love03(She) - thumbnail Ghosting Love03(He) - thumbnail Ghosting Love04(She) - thumbnail Ghosting Love04(He) - thumbnail

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    Ghosting Love | 2019

A social media phenomenon, that of ‘ghosting’ or the ending of a personal relationship by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all forms of communication, is explored in Nemes’ last series of works, Ghosting Love. Ghosting as a practice has emerged in parallel with the rise in popularity of using online dating apps, such as Tinder, as a means of meeting prospective romantic partners, and is thus a further example of how contemporary life moves individuals away from the real and into the virtual in the search for emotional fulfilment, yet nevertheless exposes those same individuals to the very real trauma of being ghosted as a result. The French novelist Michel Houellebecq presaged the underlying social isolation of modern society in his prize winning 1998 novel Atomised, the story of two half-brothers and their loveless, loner existences in a future Paris. In the paired works Ghosting Love 05 (He) (2019) and Ghosting Love 05 (She) (2019), through various symmetries within the works, such as the positions of the structural spaces, the positions of the light reflective vinyl used and colour blocks in the composition, Nemes references the inter-relatedness of the two pieces while simultaneously emphasising their individuality and an arguably Houellebecqian separateness.