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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 idleness, so often criticized in our contemporary societies increasingly oriented towards productivity and constant self-optimization. Taking the opposite approach… The English word acedia designates a state of profound boredom and apathy. With this project, the artist celebrates idleness, so often criticized in our contemporary societies increasingly oriented towards productivity and constant self-optimization. Taking the opposite approach to these calls for performance and efficiency, Louise Desnos proposes to rethink laziness as a creative act, and as a posture of resistance against work alienation, relentless competition and consumerism in the capitalist system. Her sensitive and contemplative photographs, imbued with literary, cinematographic and pictorial inspirations, highlight non-events. Laziness, inhabited by the models, proposes to express a refusal of life as it is given to be lived, in favour of a search for freedom and a space for introspection, sometimes tinged with melancholy. The very creation 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.