Unrequited Like
3 – 31 October 2020

Gallery DODO opens in its new space at Phoenix Art Space with the exhibition Unrequited Like by the Cambridge/Leipzig-based art collective, Motion Sickness. This, the first in a short programme of exhibitions for which DODO has invited 2 or 3 artists to collaborate in producing their own show, is timed to coincide with the Photo Fringe Collectives exhibition in Phoenix’s main gallery. 

Formed in 2018, Motion Sickness is made up of Denise Kehoe, Eleanor Breeze and Arabella Hilfiker. Their name is taken from the term describing a condition of dissonance between messages arriving in the brain from differing sensory inputs. This disparity of perception is a metaphor for the incongruity that millennials often encounter when comparing the place they would like to be in their lives with that in which they find themselves in reality. 

With social distancing, our abilities and means of ‘keeping in touch’ have never been less tactile. Now more than ever, we are removed from real life and left displaced into the numbed experience of LED screens. The internet and its moreishness leave us addicted and insatiable. The information superhighway is fantastic but everyone is miserable. We live in a technological Utopia, yet we are nostalgic and yearn for the simplicity of pure connection.

The screen is so cold and angular… If only the internet could give us a soft warm hug. If only our phones loved us for more than just our data, likes added up to love and real happiness was as convenient as Amazon, Instagram and Deliveroo. Sadly, the internet is just another guy stringing us along, not really giving a fuck. This show explores how childhood dreams of technological Utopia have manifested into more of an Ewwwtopia for the Motion Sickness gals.