Lonely Hearts
Looking for love? (Melbourne)
Visual artists Amy and Lara are looking for single people to participate in a new art project, Lonely Hearts.
The project will profile twelve singles through photography and installation.
The project will involve an interview and portrait taken of you. You will be consulted throughout the process, helping to create an exciting new artwork and potentially a new match!
To express interest in participating contact us.
Crowds flitted past the brightly lit cabinets that line the Degraves Street Subway beneath Flinders Street station. A couple of middle-aged women sauntered past, gazing for a few seconds into one or two of the vitrines. They continued on their way. A homeless man sat on the ground nearby, his face buried in his knees. Five twenty-somethings hung out near one of the locked cases, which hosted a DVD Walkman playing some film footage. One stated authoritatively that she was surprised that no one had broken into it, because the Walkman could be worth something at Cash Converters.1
During the Lonely Hearts exhibition, eleven of the vitrines that comprise Platform Art Spaces housed photographs, objects and ephemera provided by members of the public. Artists Amy Spiers and Lara Thoms had placed an advertisement on websites Gumtree and Craigslist calling for ‘lonely hearts’ to nominate a group of personal possessions that would, when grouped in the cases at Platform, represent them to potential lovers—a sort of off-line version of their dating profile.2 In a rather bold move, the artists had even sought access to the participants’ bedrooms, looking for other items to include in the Platform cabinets. In addition to this, Spiers and Thoms had photographed respondents in