mmaria_mmeets

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You are no longer by my side my love. 

Let’s do this the old way and cry until something lift me up, until something lift us up. But don’t forget to smile as you cover your face in sorrow so we can see rainbows, butterflies and tinder matches’

mmaria_mmeets reflects on the socio-political and personal implications of love, affect, emotion, and intimacy. Rooted in the understanding that the personal is political, the piece examines how contemporary systems of desire and attachment are shaped by capitalism, digital culture, and the commodification of human connection.

Drawing parallels between capitalist logics and the consumption of bodies and relationships through dating apps, mmaria_mmeets explores the ways intimacy becomes transactional, performative, and endlessly circulated. The work questions the learned fear of being alone, considering how loneliness, self-optimization, and romantic longing are constantly exploited and repackaged as marketable emotional states.

Through autobiographical fragments, performative confession, humor, and irony, the piece navigates the contradictions between vulnerability and self-exposure, desire and alienation, connection and consumption. Personal experiences become both material and method: a way of generating collective reflection around emotional survival under contemporary conditions.

Rather than offering fixed conclusions, mmaria_mmeets proposes sharing as a form of knowledge production and healing. By transforming intimate experiences into performative encounters, the work creates space for audiences to recognize themselves within the absurdities, anxieties, tenderness, and emotional negotiations that shape our ways of relating today.