Critique of contemporary hyperactivity
CaixaForum's new exhibition proposal includes works in different formats by artists such as Priscila Fernandes, Ángela Ferreira and Agustín Parejo School.
Croatian conceptual artist Mladen Stilinović (1947-2016) wrote that "there is no art without laziness". The exhibition hosted by CaixaForum Barcelona until April 18 next year, Sooooo Lazy. Elogio del derroche, has many references to laziness, understood as a contrast to the hyperactivity of our days, and at the same time shows the hope of a redistribution of resources and time that can make possible a rethinking of the common. Curated by Beatriz Escudero and Francesco Giaveri, the proposal is part of the Convocatoria de comisariado program, and visitors will find very diverse pieces (painting, photography, installation, video and sculpture) by creators such as Priscila Fernandes, Ángela Ferreira, Alberto Gil Casedas, Sharon Lockhardt, Agnes Martin, Aernout Mik, Agustín Parejo School or Xavier Ribas.
Its organizers explain that the idea of the exhibition comes from the notion of consumption of the French writer, anthropologist and philosopher Georges Bataille, who said that the economy is not based on production and consumption, but on spending as a waste. The curators show a fiction that wants to waste time instead of using it productively, and destroying wealth before accumulating it. In this line, laziness is not frowned upon, as is often the case in our world today, but practically an obligation, or, as Bataille himself said, waste (in this case, of time) as "the necessary unproductive activity for good coexisting".
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