Everything is Okay

Everything is Okay: Season 2 @ Marlborough Contemporary London
September 11 — October 13, 2018

Everything is Okay @ 47 Canal
October 29 – December 17, 2017

An opera of the everyday about small digital images used in electronic communication.

Do you use emojis when:
❑ a you are sad and lonely?
❑ b you feel your friends are distant?
❑ c you feel the need to reassure your chat partner?
❑ d in a work context?

Are emojis:
❑ a parasites to language?
❑ b a welcome transposition into written language of tonal inflections borrowed from speech?
❑ c cute and playful?
❑ d costly?

When you receive an emoji, do you feel:
❑ a the love?
❑ b misunderstood?
❑ c like the person who sent you the message is having fun?
❑ d nothing?

You often:
❑ a have dreams where your words are replaced by icons?
❑ b wonder if emojis are spying on you?
❑ c imagine what a world without them would be?
❑ d wonder when emojis really started to exist?

The exhibition was made with the assistance of: Alex Hayden, Ben Taylor, Emily Schubert, Julie Malen, Nicholas Woodward, Olivier Alary and Thomas Lauria. Thank you thank you. Special thanks to: all the staff at 47 Canal (especially Margaret Lee, Oliver Newton and Jamie Kenyon), Micaela Durand, Sanya + Liz + Vera Laser Kantarovsky, Sarah Wang, Standish Lee, and Trevor Shimizu.