In a megacity where cultures blend together, two young adults cross paths in different parts of the city. They are there, yet they do not see each other. Their smartphones, from which they rarely look away, stand in the way of their story, just like the reflections in car windows or shopfronts, museums, or gas stations that rise between them.
From this initial premise, Dom Simon creates the substance of a cycle of 36 paintings assembled into large-scale slides and sequenced like a cinematic storyboard, in which the narrative freezes the protagonists in a suspended reverie. His series revisits the familiar themes of Edward Hopper: the incommunicability of romantic feeling and the loneliness of our urban lives. The artist reinterprets them through a post-digital aesthetic, where blur and plays of reflection convey the ambiguity of contemporary hyper-connectivity: the world is visible everywhere, yet reality becomes elusive and individuals, unreachable.
EXHIBITION TO DISCOVER: “A Touch of Hopper”