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.