Belgian Days 2025: Our Cold Loves by Ariane Loze

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Our Cold Loves is both a video and a participatory performance that explores love in the digital age. Blending cinema and theatre, it invites the audience to embody characters from the world of online dating, while questioning the underlying mechanisms at play.

In the video Our Cold Loves, 22 characters explore intimacy in the age of dating apps such as Tinder. In an intimate performance for 22 participants seated around a dining table as if invited to an exquisite meal, you and your table companions will reassemble fragments of dialogue into a new montage of the video (in English).

Ariane Loze writes, directs, acts and edits her own videos, making each one a performance in its own right. Our Cold Loves will have its Asia premiere at Belgian Days 2025, an unmissable opportunity to interact with this unique, internationally acclaimed artist.

Performance timetable:

Thu. 6 Nov. 19:30
Fri. 7 Nov. 19:30
Sat. 8 Nov. 15:00 & 19:30
Sun. 9 Nov. 19:30
Mon. 10 Nov No performance
Tue. 11 Nov. 19:30
Wed. 12 Nov. 19:30
Thu. 13 Nov. 19:30
Fri. 14 Nov. 19:30
Sat. 15 Nov. 15:00 & 19:30

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Ariane Loze (born 1988, Brussels) is a video artist who performs in her works. She pares down her production means to the fundamental elements, aiming to explore the connection between her body, the camera, and the viewers. Her work highlights the relativity of perspectives and the evolution of identity through the principles of cinematic editing. Her works have been exhibited in numerous European and international institutions, including: [2024] Fondazione MAST (Bologna), Droog (Amsterdam); [2023] Duke Hall Gallery at James Madison University (Harrisonburg VA, USA), CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel (Switzerland); [2022] EMΣΤ, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens; [2021] Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (Paris) with the support of the Fondation Hermès; [2019] CACC Chanot (Clamart, France); [2018] KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Shandong Museum (Jinan, China), Moscow Biennial of Young Art, RIBOCA Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art (Latvia); [2017] New York Anthologie Film Archive; [2016] Fondation Boghossian (Brussels), S.M.A.K. (Ghent).