Breath


ROOM 04Take a pause. Notice what is going on around you. How often do you do that? How often do you miss the beauty in your surroundings?

We have been forced to function and respond to the world at a speed the past generations would probably not be able to follow. We try to keep up with technology to catch up with times. Still, information overload is more likely to lead us into a stagnant mode.

How long are you able to stay away from your phone without checking it one single time? How long can you keep yourself offline?

Modern society is addicted to consumption. Do you choose what you see? Or does a binary sequence of codes does that for you? Do you see yourself so binary? Have you ever questioned what lies beyond that binary?

At what moment did you allow your right to choose to be taken from you?

Take a pause. Look up for a second. Pay attention to the real world. You are not alone.

Surround yourself with art.
Learn from art. Make art. Choose art.

Breath.








Drop the phone
London/UK
May, 2023





Taking pauses
Lagos/PT
August, 2023



Buy local
Montreal/CAJune, 2023




I see beauty everywhere
Chicago/US, London/UK
June,2023


“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn’t be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.”

Umberto Eco, On Ugliness





Art can talk
Toronto/CA
June, 2023
Belmore, Rebecca. nindinawemaganidog (all of my relations), witness, 2017. As seen at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Art can talk
Paris/FR
August, 2023
Hawkins, Louis Welden. Séverine, 1895. As seen at Musée d'Orsay



KeithNew York/US
June, 2023
Haring, Keith. Crack is Wack, 1986.








TillmansToronto/CA
June, 2023
"Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear" at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)




Art is everywhereNew York/US
June, 2023
Nomikos, Yannis. Untitled, acrylic on ostrich egg, part of the exhibition "Coyote Park: I Love You Like Mirrors Do" at the Leslie Lohman Museum.
Art is everywhereNew York/US
June, 2023
Opie, Catherine. Being and Having, 1991. As part of the MoMa Collection
Art is everywhereNew York/US
June, 2023
Hartley, Madsen. Madawaska, Acadian Light-Heavy, 1940. seen at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. 
Art is everywhereNew York/US
June, 2023
Bender, Gretchen. TV Text and Image, 1990. As seen on "Signals: How Video Transformed the World" at MoMa.
Art is everywhereNew York/US
June, 2023
Syms, Martine. GIRRRLGIRLLLGGGIRLGIIIRL, 2017. As seen at "Signals : How Video Transformed the World" - at the MoMa
Art is everywhereNew York/US
June, 2023
Eshetu, Theo. Til Death Us Do Part , 1987. Part of the MoMa permanent collection
Art is everywhereLondon/UK
September, 2023
Street art. Artist unknown.





“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”
Umberto Eco






S.O.S.
Paris/FR
June, 2023
Harrison, Alexander. La Solitude, 1893.
S.O.S.
London/UK
July, 2023


Be surrounded by smart people
London/UK
November, 2023




See the power in every woman
London/UK
November, 2023




Heal in Cardozo Road
London/UK
December, 2023



Let it rip
Chicago/US
June, 2023
BRATHWAITE, Kwame. Untitled, c.1965. As seen at the exhibition "Black is Beautiful" at The Art Institute of Chicago 
Let it rip
Chicago/US
June, 2023
Plensa, Jaume. Crown Fountain, 2004.  




Just believe in art
Paris/FR
August, 2023


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London, UK, 2023