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For CR0N1C4M3NT3 0NL1N3(read as “Chronically Online”), I brought together Rio-based artist Gpeto and São Paulo artist ANNA ANNA for a duo show at 25M Sala de Projetos, an independent exhibition space in downtown São Paulo directed by artist Bruno Ferreira.

Below you’ll find the short release I wrote for the exhibition, along with photos from the installation and opening, and the promotional poster I designed—drawing inspiration from the nostalgic layout of the now-defunct social network Orkut.

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it is no longer possible to step outside the internet.

once upon a time we could sign off—blaming pricey dial‑up pulses and typing “logging off, ttyl!”—and return to a life lived entirely in the flesh. Today the very divide between online/offline (digital/real) has caved in beneath the spread of smartphones, social networks, and AI algorithms. chronically online, we can scarcely imagine an existence detached from the clouds that nourish our souls—and their latent anxiety—driving us to gulp down, scarcely chewing, ever more “content.” What began as a partial self‑portrait has become the dominant image by which others—and we ourselves—recognise us: the profiles we curate and construct.

reflecting on this post‑internet condition, CHR0N1C4LLY 0NL1N3 presents paintings by gpeto (Rio de Janeiro), whose practice converses with the fugacity of digital interfaces and feeds on the recursion of neural‑network image generation, and sculptures by Anna Bigão (São Paulo), who uses her own body as raw material, digitally distorting it into alien forms that are at once organic and artificial—like each one of us.