Love Me Right Now

2023

Runtime: 0:07 video on endless loop

Single channel HD video, stereo audio

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Artist Statement:

In Love Me Right Now, an installation by Neill Prewitt at Whitespace Gallery, a small video reaches out to viewers from a crack in the gallery wall. Putting their eye to the crack, the viewer is engaged with a sensual, immersive experience. In the video, the artist dances in front of a large drawing, moving their body in and out of its abstracted anthropomorphic shape and towards the viewer, demanding “love me, right now.” Responding to the ubiquity of insubstantial videos constantly jittering for our attention from screens embedded everywhere in our environment, Prewitt’s intervention in the gallery opens dialogue between the body and the image, and creates a palpable tension between exterior environments and interior mindscapes.