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Louise Desnos. Acedia
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Open in the appThe English word acedia (acédie in French) refers to a state of deep boredom and apathy. With this project, the artist praises laziness, so often criticized in our contemporary societies increasingly focused on productivity and constant self-optimization. Going against these… The English word acedia (acédie in French) refers to a state of deep boredom and apathy. With this project, the artist praises laziness, so often criticized in our contemporary societies increasingly focused on productivity and constant self-optimization. Going against these calls for performance and efficiency, Louise Desnos proposes to rethink laziness as a creative act and as a posture of resistance against alienation through work, relentless competition and consumerism of the capitalist system. Her sensitive and contemplative photographs, imbued with literary, cinematic and pictorial inspirations, highlight non-events. Laziness, embodied by the models, offers to translate a refusal of life as it is given to be lived, in favor of a search for freedom and a space of introspection, sometimes tinged with melancholy. The very realization of this project was for the photographer a way to reclaim time and invest it without constraint, unlike her paid assignments as a photographer. A collaboration with the Convergences Foundation.