About Éva Ostrowska

Éva Ostrowska’s work translates the immateriality of digital life into something tactile, slow, and enduringly material. From dating app interfaces to AI companion conversations, from ChatGPT breakup texts to self-marriage in the metaverse, each piece fossilizes the fleeting exchanges of contemporary love into permanent material form. Where a swipe takes a second, a tapestry takes months.

Her work began in 2016, when she married herself at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes following a broken engagement, a gesture that became the foundation for an ongoing investigation into attachment, dependency, and the search for reliable connection.

Recently, her practice has expanded into sculpture and needle-felted relief, exploring human-AI domestic intimacy as machines increasingly become our most faithful companions.

Her work has been exhibited at Bozar Brussels, the Vitra Design Museum and iMAL Brussels, and is held in public and private collections including the MoMA Library and the Franklin Furnace Archives.