Patrik Pion - La perte du bonheur
| Author | François Piron ed. |
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| Publisher | Paraguay Press |
| ISBN | 9782918252788 |
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On the occasion of his exhibition La perte du bonheur (The Loss of Happiness] at the Centre d'art contemporain—la Synagogue de Delme, Patrik Pion used a quote from Sigmund Fcreud to question the future of the notion of happiness in the contemporary world. Now emerging as an order in a society relying on well-being, care, and positive psychology, the search for happiness—or an obsession with it—appears more as a reflection of "happycracy" (a failure to prevent the rise in depressive states and reliance on antidepressants) rather than as a sincere accompaniment to the emancipation of peoples. La perte du bonheur questions, through a series of sculptures, drawings, and videos, the future of this essential notion for the construction of the subject and its undeniable need to be reclaimed by liberated subjectivities.This publication is probably more an artist's book than it is the catalogue of the exhibition. It documents the artist's studio and notably how he displays there his "White objects", made of folded white paper since the 1990s,and conceived in connection with the workshops in psychiatric hospitals that Pion organized during several decades. These uncanny sculptures question alienating norms through the lens of sociology and psychoanalysis: how we look at the objects in our surroundings, and how they look at us.
| 76 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, French/English |
Paraguay Press
