When we think of love and art, it is works like Rene Magritte’s The lovers (1928) and Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE sculpture of 1967 that spring to mind, along with classics like Romeo and Juliet (1597) and Gabriel García Márquez’s novel from 1985, Love in the Time of Cholera (particularly apt in our pandemic times).
But as we live in times of social distancing – in a pandemic that blankets intimacy in caution – we take a look at how that very human nature to connect can be maintained through the arts.
