Osservatorio Fondazione Prada opens `Surrogate. A Love Ideal`
(Artdaily.org)

“Surrogati. Un amore ideale” (Surrogate. A Love Ideal), an exhibition curated by Melissa Harris, opens on 21 February 2019 at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan. Comprising a selection of 42 photographic works by Jamie Diamond (Brooklyn, 1983) and Elena Dorfman (Boston, 1965), the project – on view until 22 July 2019 - explores the notions of familiar, romantic and sexual love. Both artists focus on a specific and unconventional aspect of this universal theme: the emotional link between a man or a woman and a synthetic representation of a human. As explained by Melissa Harris, “together, Diamond’s and Dorfman’s work presented in ‘Surrogati’ vividly and nonjudgmentally documents the interactions of humans with their lifelike, inanimate companions.” In her series Forever Mothers (2012-2018) and Nine Months of Reborning (20