Email, WhatsApp messages, teleconference sessions, and
endless meetings draw employees into cycles of reaction, rather than proactivity.
Since the launch of tinder back in 2012, and with people bored of long
drawn out profiles and
endless messaging back and forth on traditional dating sites, there is no denying that dating apps are now the go - to method if you want to
meet someone online these days.
And if Merz's imagery is at the same time a hortus conclusus and an infinite sky that burns, so the exhibition at
Met seems to look with one eye at the chaotic and creative intimacy of her house - atelier in Turin (on view too few photographs bear witness to the relationship between her art and domestic environment, which is by contrast well documented in the catalogue) and with the other to the
endless possibilities of recombination allowed by her works (eloquent, in this perspective, are the rooms in which significant groups of
drawings converse with recent paintings, installations, and sculptures).