NEO-ROMANTIC MYTH
Portraits of Loneliness in the age of Technology
The work studies how emotion operates within artificial systems of perception. By reconstructing the psychological structure of virtual space, it examines how contemporary technology reshapes empathy and presence through the simulation of reality.
Modern virtual technologies aim to recreate lived experience, allowing individuals to re-encounter relationships, emotions, and the self within controlled environments. They carry a wish for repair, yet expose a new form of distance, when life becomes a programmable model, emotion begins to lose its ambiguity and unpredictability.
The imagery intentionally adopts a virtual, almost 3D appearance, simplified, synthetic, and deliberately imperfect. This visual language mirrors the way digital systems imitate reality while revealing their own emotional emptiness.
We focus on this redesigned emotional reality: intimacy and loneliness coexist on digital surfaces, and feelings become signals that can be generated, delayed, or replaced. Romance is no longer a sensation, but a structure shaped by systems.



