Manu Arregui

Dating app. 2017-2020

Machining of krion and 3D printing of ceramic compound, 125 x 70 x 15 cm.

Dating App is a sculpture executed from 3D printing and machining technology that shows a large, three-dimensional version of a device that could be a Smartphone or Tablet. What would be the grid of a photo gallery in a computer application becomes here a construction of cells, some of them occupied by anatomical shapes sectioned in its three dimensions to fit into the assigned boxes. The emotional volatility characteristic of personal relationships in Post-Internet society contrasts with the solidity and statism properties of sculpture, which seems to want to exist as an analog residue of this Digital Age. This piece not only refers to the changes in affective consumption favored by the appearance of these applications, but also problematizes the ways of adapting to the “pattern” fostered by the same technology used in military movements, geolocation, which continues to be constrained by the same patriarchal society that conditions the artist’s work.