About this podcast
We encounter love everywhere - in romantic relationships, friendships, between parents and children. It is universal and yet individually shaped by time, society and culture. It is probably as old as humanity itself. And artists have also been dealing with it since time immemorial. The second season of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung podcast Love, Maybe is dedicated to love in contemporary art. The exhibition shows photographs, multimedia installations and glass sculptures that understand love as an active act: as responsibility, care and a political gesture. Inspired by Audre Lorde's critique of the romantic myth and bell hooks' vision of love as a political act, Love, Maybe opens up new perspectives: love not just as a feeling, but as a utopia. Each episode of the podcast accompanies a chapter of the exhibition and gives a voice to artists who have created works especially for the exhibition. It is about intimacy, care, desire and the view of love beyond patriarchal norms. The four episodes can be listened to as an accompaniment to the exhibition or independently of it.

In each episode, artists from the exhibition and experts who deal with love, intimacy and desire in contemporary art have their say.

Episode 2: Gaze, Maybe
Who is looking? Returning the gaze
with Eli Cortiñas

The gaze is never neutral - it shapes power relations, forms stereotypes and is influenced by culture, society and technology. Who looks, who is seen - and how do AI and digital avatars influence our perception? This episode addresses patriarchal and racist gaze regimes. Artist Eli Cortiñas uses video and audio material to deconstruct visual stereotypes of love. We talk to her about image and body politics in art - and about how art can help to break viewing habits.

The podcast can also be heard wherever podcasts are available.