Flowing Love

From the Ephemera Series 2023 Edition 1/1 3D animation and sound 1920 x 1920 px ‘Flowing Love’ refers to the concept of eternal love compared to the contemporary 'liquid love' theorised by sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, a mirror of the so-called 'liquid society', characterised by uncertainty, frenzy, narcissism and inconsistency. The archetypal love of antiquity that bound Amor and Psyche, for which one was willing to fight and face arduous trials, is today replaced by a more tenuous and evanescent type of commitment, no longer circumscribed by superior superstructures such as religion and tradition, but based on the personalities of individuals with their fragilities: subjects unprepared to recognise themselves as the starting point of their lives, yet called upon to do so without choice. Liquid love fears change and at the same time does not contemplate eternity, keeping one suspended in a bubble of eternal falling in love, in which any evolution towards stability is experienced as a possible threat. The ambrosia drunk by Psyche, which allows her at the end of the tale to finally become Goddess and crown her dream of eternal love, here takes on the opposite meaning: a liquid of love that never crystallises and remains in its state as a constantly moving fluid.