Event

Compagnonnage Horizones #4 « Agenda » July 8, 2022 from 6pm to 9pm

Friday 8 July 2022 at 6 pm

For the 23rd Pernod Ricard Foundation Award, Elsa Werth has created a new multiple, which will be unveiled at the Horizones Film Club on July 7 and 8, 2022. Unveiled, or rather transmitted from hand to hand on the occasion of a furtive transaction as the artist likes them.

 

Entitled Agenda, the new edition of Elsa Werth proposes the rule of an everyday game: « Flip the coin everyday ». It consists of flipping a coin each morning to decide whether our day will be off or on, thus allowing chance to redefine our relationship to time and productivity. On one side, the inscription MONDAY, followed by WORK TODAY, urges us to work. On the other side, SUNDAY, followed by DO NOT WORK TODAY, calls for free time. The week thus redefined by chance becomes dynamic.

In a society that values productivity and growth, this work attempts to create a breach, an irrational path in an increasingly standardized and framed daily life. Taking the appearance of a coin, Agenda refers to the current financialization of social relations. It invites us to position ourselves in relation to the use of our time, to consumption, to growth or degrowth.

 

No doubt that Agenda will find itself, in one way or another, furtive, present in September for the exhibition Horizones!

 

 

 

IMAGE :

Elsa Werth, Agenda, 2022

Engraved metal piece offered, 2.75 cm diameter, 1000 copies

Production: Pernod Ricard Foundation as part of the 23rd Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize

Elsa Werth "Agenda", 2022
Elsa Werth "Agenda", 2022
Speakers

Elsa Werth

Date
Time
18h00
Location
Fondation Pernod Ricard
1 cours Paul Ricard
75008 Paris
Free entrance
Free admission, without reservation