‘Our Cold Loves’ examines the quest for love and intimacy through dating apps such as Tinder. Using apparently unrelated dialogues, Ariane Loze creates a storyline in which 22 different online characters, such as the CEO, the romantic, or the undocumented migrant, each in their own way, show vulnerability in their search for affection and intimacy. A love coach, a data broker and other data specialists cast an analytic eye over the words of the protagonists, revealing the dissonance between our real identity and our digital one. The characters are all gender-neutral and are almost always shown in empty spaces, expressing the solitude of people using their mobile phones.  

Her work investigates the mechanisms driving the apps and the illusion of love they are based on, such as the underlying algorithm based on a competitive point system (Elo-rating) for matching people. 

Ariane Loze: ‘We put our life in the hands of the apps. Online life is partly written messages and conscious constructing of yourself. It’s dysfunctional, it’s going too fast, it’s too efficient for us as humans.’

Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Michel Rein Paris / Brussels  

Ariane Loze is a Belgium-based artist. Ariane’s videos invite the viewer to actively create a story from seemingly unrelated images, using the cinematographic principles of shot and counter-shot, the assumed continuity of movement, and the suggestion of a narrative. For these projects, the artist takes on all roles: actress, camerawoman and director. Her most recent works interrogate the way algorithms function, and their omnipresence in our daily lives. 

Ariane Loze studied theatre direction at the RITCS Brussels and took part in a.pass (Advanced Performance And Scenography Studies) in Antwerp. She is a laureate of the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) Ghent 2016-17. Loze’s works have been presented at the Salon de Montrouge Paris (May 2018) and in the new museum for contemporary art KANAL Centre Pompidou in Brussels (May 2018).