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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 praises laziness, so often criticized in our contemporary societies increasingly focused on productivity and constant self-optimization. Going against these calls for… The English word acedia designates a state of profound 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 reconsidering laziness as a creative act and as a stance of resistance against work alienation, relentless competition, and consumerism within the capitalist system. Her sensitive and contemplative photographs, infused with literary, cinematic, and pictorial inspirations, shed light on non-events. The laziness embodied by the models proposes to express a refusal of life as it is given to live, in favor 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.