Miserabilism
2015
This series of works on paper is responding to André Breton in his noteworthy diatribe “Away with Miserabilism” (1956), which questions a sense of safety and complacency through a consumerist and capitalist culture that in reality masks an individual’s dulled misery and René Magritte in his iconic painting “Treachery of Images” (1929) where he paints a pipe along with the text “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, questioning the oppressive conventions of language and more broadly of the bourgeoisie.
Photo Credit: Stacie Jaye Meyer
