lea van hall

✩ multimedia artist based in paris and vienna ✩

2024 – 2026

die Angewandte Vienna

2023 – 2024

Beaux-Arts de Paris

2019 – 2024

HFBK Hamburg

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don’t eat too much candy, ok? 2023.

photo © Lea van Hall
found object, modified
typography by Tigran Saakyan

„Don‘t eat too much candy, ok?“ is a quote from a Tamagotchi game that stood out to me. In a game that is based on caring for an imaginary companion that relies on you to keep them alive, there is a moment where this being starts „caring back“.
As I am simulating caring for an imaginary friend and this character is simulating caring for me as well, if I truly feel cared for through this imaginary interaction, what role does it play that it’s a simulation?