Life Needs Internet was born from Jeroen van Loon's challenge: to live for two months without the internet or a phone. From this digital abstinence emerges a crucial question, posed to hundreds of people around the world: How does the internet influence your life?
The exhibition presents their handwritten responses—intimate traces where gratitude and anxiety mingle. Each piece of writing reveals our ambivalent dependence on the web: a tool for freedom that has become indispensable, a space for connection transformed into a vital necessity. These testimonies sketch a collective self-portrait of connected humanity, caught between alienation and emancipation.
Life Needs Internet thus captures the paradoxical essence of our era: never more free, never more dependent.
Jeroen van Loon is a Dutch artist whose work explores digital culture through the lens of the ephemeral versus the permanent. For him, hybrid art takes on its full meaning: he seeks to broaden our understanding of the relationship between contemporary digital culture and the new realities created by technological progress. Van Loon invites us to take the time to examine the effects of these advancements on our lives, our climate, and our culture, countering the euphoric celebration that often accompanies technological evolution.