Three theatre directors, an author and a visual artist speak of love and intimacy in our current pandemic, and how the arts can maintain connection when we physically can’t.
When we think of love and art, it is works like Rene Magritte’s The lovers (1928) and Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE sculpture of 1967 that spring to mind, along with classics like Romeo and Juliet (1597) and Gabriel García Márquez’s novel from 1985, Love in the Time of Cholera (particularly apt in our pandemic times).
But as we live in times of social distancing – in a pandemic that blankets intimacy in caution – we take a look at how that very human nature to connect can be maintained through the arts.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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