from: La Châtaigneraie, Flémalle (BE)
to: Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster (DE)
Lola Reynaerts; “Social media gives us the illusion of closeness, while this connection often remains superficial.
With a simple click, we gain access to events happening on the other side of the world.
How does this change our perception of the world ?
What impact does it have on our lives ?
Have we become more supportive, more responsive ?
Sometimes, a single post or reaction is enough to feel like we’ve participated, and for some, as if they’ve taken political action.
In my view, this behavior mostly reinforces passive individualism, the kind we practice from the “couch,” where we take a stance without confronting others or engaging with opposing views. In contrast, art, in all its forms, leads us to debate, to exchange, to converse. It brings us together around an emotion, a feeling, whether shared or not. Isn’t that why we call them the performing arts?
In a concert hall, human connection flows in every direction : between the artists and the audience, energy is shared. If that connection doesn’t happen, the concert won’t have the same intensity. And it’s afterward, perhaps, that social media finds its place, its role as a “connector” : it allows us to extend the emotion we felt, to tell and share what we experienced, together, in real life.”