More specifically, the pieces brought together in this exhibition construct a dual movement between them. Starting with the laws of attraction of celestial bodies and their possible analogy in the field of human relationships, this project provides a diagnosis of the new forms of intimacy in the era of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. If this was clear in Articantartic – the project which gave rise to Brother in Ice and which took the history of polar expeditions as a metaphor for this exploratory impulse – in Speculative Intimacy, this affiliation is perhaps more subtle, but no less influential. Somehow, it seems all her efforts converge in the construction of a sort of experimental ontology of affects – something which would explain the recurrence of notions such as conquest, drive, desire and discovery in her work. This voluntary transit between disciplines makes Alicia Kopf not only a writer, nor just a visual artist, but someone who navigates fluidly and pragmatically between mediums, techniques and technologies, according to the needs of the project at hand. Once arranged in a space, these objects spin webs of sensory relationships that we have grown accustomed to calling exhibitions. They are things that form part of the same stories, but which Kopf knows cannot be read – only seen, felt, experienced. In addition to books, Alicia Kopf ’s investigations frequently result in the production of other objects – drawings, photographs, videos – which function as offshoots of the same impulse that leads her to writing. On its pages, photographs, drawings, diagrams and maps coexist with WhatsApp messages, excerpts of scientific articles and information taken from the Internet, revealing a creative process where investigations of various kinds gather documents whose contents nurture reflections, reflections that generate meanings and meanings that generate artworks. Two of the peculiarities which immediately made this book stand out were its eschewal of a conventional narrative structure and the inclusion of other elements besides the text the author created for its plot. The name Alicia Kopf burst onto the cultural scene with the publication, in 2016, of the novel “Brother in Ice”.
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