I wrote the following essay for the catalogue of Love, Maybe – Intimacy and Desire in Contemporary Art, an exhibition curated by Dr Jana Johanna Haeckel at The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung in Munich. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s poem Love, Maybe, the exhibition explored the possibilities and challenges of depicting love in contemporary art. In this piece, I reflect on the poetic and political dimensions of Love, Intimacy, and Romance — three entangled yet distinct forces — and consider how ...
