Louise Desnos – Acédia
Festival de photo MAP, Toulouse
Parvis les Abattoirs, Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse
From 12 to 29 september 2024
Opening on Thursday 12 September 2024
As part of the 15th MAP festival in Toulouse, Louise Desnos presents Acédia
Acédia: a state of pain and affliction linked to a lack of motivation, weariness and disenchantment.
“Laziness has become a common thread in my practice. For me, it is first and foremost a means of production, since the time freed from responsibilities and remunerative work is the time I invest freely. So it’s by focusing on random elements that are both significant and insignificant, but which find no other link than a kind of everyday chance, that I’ve built up this collection of images. My mind wanders, gets lost, focuses on an element, gives it importance and then resumes its movement.”
Louise Desnos
Raoul Vaneigem, on the lazy man, in Eloge de la paresse affinée: “He perceives a thousand presences within the grass, the leaves, a cloud, a perfume, a wall, a piece of furniture, a stone. Suddenly, he feels connected to the earth by the intimate veins of life”.
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