post 2 post is a new collaboration between writer Paul Boyé and artist Ella Valentine. They share a mutual interest in ‘posting’: the activity of casually producing content for sharing online, often without consideration or intention. Posting is both ecstatic and mundane, a compulsive anti-diary of first-thought-best-thought dumping into the endlessly accepting receptacle of social media.

Both Paul and Ella work with intention in their respective practices, yet the impulse to post remains. post 2 post presents a short film produced in response to the wellness-podcasting industrial complex, hydration encouragement, and other closed-loop systems between health, culture and content. The actual/virtual divide between compulsive content sharing is realised through a suite of found object assemblage, drawing, photography and text. This display invites you to enter through the deconstructed gift shop of merch, slogans, motifs and moments from the film, rendering closer the commodity form and content of posting online.

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Image courtesy the artists.