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Louise Desnos. Acedia
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Open in the appThe English word acedia designates a state of profound boredom and apathy. With this project, the artist celebrates laziness, so often condemned in our contemporary societies always more oriented towards productivity and constant self-optimization. Going against these incitations… The English word acedia designates a state of profound boredom and apathy. With this project, the artist celebrates laziness, so often condemned in our contemporary societies always more oriented towards productivity and constant self-optimization. Going against these incitations to performance and efficiency, Louise Desnos proposes to reconsider laziness as a creative act and as a stance of resistance against alienation at work, relentless competition and consumerism of the capitalist system. Her sensitive and contemplative photographs, infused with literary, cinematographic and pictorial inspirations, highlight non-events. Laziness, embodied by the models, proposes to express a refusal of life as it is given to be lived, in favor of a search for freedom and a space for introspection, sometimes tinged with melancholy. The very realization of this project has been for the photographer a way to reclaim time and invest it without constraints, unlike her paid photography commissions. A collaboration with the Convergences Foundation.