Loïs Soleil (FR). Through digital art, performance, installation, poetry, and sound, Franco-Scottish artist Loïs Soleil’s artistic practice aims to bridge the emotional and the political by posing intersectional cyber/techno-feminist questions. Her work confronts the everyday sexist structures of the web, its bias algorithms, and culture. It explores the relationships between pop culture, identity, and voyeurism; to illustrate a female gaze through which sexuality, love, vulnerability, and empowerment can be expressed. From the leitmotif of the bedroom, to relationships, everyday rituals, and poetry, the artist’s work is autobiographically direct, raw and emotionally vulnerable in its hyper intimacy. 

Tinder_gun_boys_@Brussels_ offers humor and resilience. The project collects Tinder images of heterosexual men posing with weapons as their dating profile picture. These images are then made into mats used in self-defense classes. Finally, and presumably after suffering another form of attack, the artist has run talks and workshops dissecting the legality of using these images in her work. The project functions as a razor-sharp calling out of the necropatriarchal power regime, in which male bodies have a sovereign monopoly and right to violence. Tinder_gun_boys_@Brussels_ also provides a lens through which to observe how many technologies and systems propagate patriarchy. The work is a brilliant piece of activism—conceptual, physical, and pragmatic.