New York-based artist Jeremy Couillard began his career as a high-school Spanish teacher, but outside the classroom he would spend hours creating intricate comics and ink drawings. Eventually, he joined Columbia University’s MFA program to study painting, but soon felt bored. ‘I realized I spent more time in front of a screen than in reality, so conversations about technology became more interesting for me. Even when I was painting, I was mostly looking at a computer,’ says the artist.

在這位德國藝術家於紐約貝浩登（Perrotin）舉辦的首次個展「When the Sun Hits the Moon」中，有幾幅畫作是初次亮相，主題為安東尼奧．卡諾瓦（Antonio Canova）的新古典主義雕塑中描繪的愛神厄洛斯與普姬幾乎接吻的場景。愛神不允許他的世間愛人看到他在光明中的樣子；當普姬拿著蠟燭對著愛神面龐的那一刻，這對戀人就永久地斷開了聯繫。Greven說：「我喜歡這個意象，因為我捕捉到的那一刻，他們還在互相對視，但未真正看見對方的面貌。他們仍處於黑暗之中，以內心注視和以內在擁抱。」

At the core of the show is a tongue-in-cheek critique of the isolation that technology is creating in society. ‘It’s frustrating, but also funny at the same time that we’re building this new [tech-centric] world that almost nobody wants, but we just keep doing it anyway,’ Couillard says. ‘The game is called Escape from Lavender Island but, in a sense, there’s no escape from our contemporary life. For better or worse, we’re stuck with each other. I think for the better. We just have to learn to get along.’