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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 criticized in our contemporary societies increasingly oriented toward productivity and constant self-optimization. Taking a contrarian stance… The English word acedia designates a state of profound boredom and apathy. With this project, the artist celebrates laziness, so often criticized in our contemporary societies increasingly oriented toward productivity and constant self-optimization. Taking a contrarian stance against these calls for performance and efficiency, Louise Desnos proposes reconsidering laziness as a creative act and as a posture of resistance against work alienation, relentless competition, and the consumerism of the capitalist system. Her sensitive and contemplative photographs, infused with literary, cinematographic, and pictorial inspirations, shed light on non-events. Laziness, inhabited by the models, aims to express a refusal of life as it is given to be lived, in favor of a quest for freedom and a space for introspection, sometimes tinged with melancholy. The very realization of this project has been a way for the photographer to reclaim time and invest it without constraint, unlike her paid assignments as a photographer. A collaboration with the Convergences Foundation.