5 and a half hours of phone-screen time, plus 8 hours of laptop-screen time, plus another 3 hours of tv-screen time. My retinas have become numb to all the digital displays I consume, absorbing the steady light from these sixteen-plus hours of my eyes scanning from device to device, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Blue artificial light suppresses melatonin, which is maybe why I stopped sleeping well two years ago. This is only one effect of the pandemic on my body. I also feel it in my head, my shoulders, and my back. In my knee, every time it creaks. Undoubtedly, I know that this is not true physical exhaustion by any means.

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But we are all tired in different ways. Living with an uncertain future in unprecedented times, has made us weary. Although, we have come to realise that what we are experiencing was quite predictable and not without precedent; capitalism, colonialism, consumption, carnality have always been forces that have shaped relations to ourselves and each other. Supply chains collapsing, warehouse shortages, and worker strikes are some of the ways in which these systems have been challenged and upended. This exhibition depicts these tensions, illustrating a resistance to notions that have always existed, that have only been propelled forward and continue to sustain themselves, even amidst climactic and cultural precarity.
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Text by Ella den Elzen