An obsession made of emojis.

Artist Statement

We live immersed in a constant obsession with digital communication: screens, social networks, endless messages, exhausted hands and minds. A continuous flow of information promises connection, yet often distances us from analog experience and genuine human contact.

My work emerges from this tension. Through the obsessive and repetitive use of emojis, a universal and collectively shared digital language, I construct images that seek to slow down perception and restore emotional density to the digital realm.

Each piece is composed of thousands of minimal units, placed one by one, through a process akin to embroidery and pointillism. In this accumulation, the cold becomes human, the instant becomes duration, and the superficial is re-signified into a search for meaning.

Biography

Mercedes Moréteau, born in 1985, is an Argentine digital artist. Since 2017, her practice has focused on creating digital artworks using emojis, exploring the visual language of the contemporary digital era.

Growing up at the intersection of early home computers, videogames and pixel-based imagery, she belongs to the first generation for whom digital interfaces became a native visual language. Her background in makeup for film and advertising shaped her sensitivity to color, morphology and image construction.

She has lived and worked in cities such as Paris and Dubai, where exposure to diverse cultural contexts enriched her artistic perspective. Her work is held in private collections. She lives and works in Argentina.