01.03.2024 – 28.04.2024
The complex interplay between work, leisure and exhaustion is a phenomenon that affects both humanity and our planet.
In “Sunseekers or Dimming the Sun”, Vasilis Papageorgiou addresses precisely this issue. By linking the depletion of our planetary resources with the phenomenon of burnout, Papageorgiou sheds light on the dynamics of capitalist pleasure systems. He questions their role in the cyclical depletion of the earth’s resources and examines how they create a cycle in relation to the human need for rest and regeneration.
The concept of the exhibition is in some ways influenced by George Papam’s text Hospitality Fatigue: Symptoms and Potions (in: Island after Tourism – Escaping the Monocultures of Leisure, Kyklada Press, 2023), in which the author explores different models of inhabitation and relationship to the landscape. Vasilis shows a series of motifs that are embedded in the exhibition as sculptures or in the form of video installations.
Vasilis Papageorgiou – Sunseekers or Dimming the Sun
01.03.2024 – 28.04.2024
Salzburger Kunstverein
Hellabrunner Straße 3
5020 Salzburg
www.salzburger-kunstverein.at
