Between Beginnings & Endings
THURSDAY, 05 March 2026 - 6-8PM
THE HANGER GALLERY - RCA, Battersea
Participation Notice
This exhibition includes an interactive, algorithmic matchmaking component.
Art-goers are invited to complete a questionnaire in order to participate in the work.
The questionnaire and resulting classifications are grounded in behavioral research. Some participants may find the results confronting or unexpectedly personal.
Participation is voluntary. You are welcome to attend the exhibition without engaging in the matchmaking component.
ARTIST - Pin-Yu Wu
ARTIST - Aima Fan
ARTIST - Kate Youme
BETWEEN BEGINNINGS & ENDINGS
Thursday, 5 March | 6–8pm | Hanger Gallery, RCA Battersea
In a time where romance feels algorithmic and intimacy arrives with terms and conditions, Between Beginnings and Endings explores what it means to date, desire, detach… and try again.
This one-evening exhibition brings together three artists: Kate Youme, Pgn Wu and Emma - -. Each artist presents work that responds to contemporary relationships and dating. The works examine how we construct our romantic selves for algorithms, how we anticipate failure before we swipe, and how both beginnings and endings have become predictable patterns.
At the centre of the evening is an optional live matchmaking experiment. Through an algorithm designed by Kate Youme, visitors enter a personality-based grouping system of discovery. The work, Really Real Arbitrary Dating is a soft, slightly mischievous take on algorithmic compatibility. The experience is not speed dating in the traditional sense. It is a performance of how we date now. An experience that is compressed and expedited. An experience that at it’s satirical core, lacks choice, story, and hope.
For two hours, the gallery becomes a social experiment, a rehearsal space for beginnings and endings.
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