Born 1984, lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
What could be more logical than hosting an artist who questions the notions of inactivity and fatigue for a research residency, without any obligation to produce? Camila Cañeque's installations, performances and videos seem to embody Bartleby's famous formula "I would prefer not to" as they express a refusal to follow the multiple injunctions of doing, of producing and of succumbing to the general hyperactivity of our modern societies. Camila Cañeque combines art with a horizontal, recumbent position: objects and bodies are caught in a latency, like a lazy but efficient strike. The moment that waiting becomes the action in itself, the moment projections are no longer evoked, an invitation to relax and actively consider the present is formulated- a kind of meditation, a suspended moment that we have the leisure to fully reclaim.
What could be more logical than hosting an artist who questions the notions of inactivity and fatigue for a research residency, without any obligation to produce? Camila Cañeque's installations, performances and videos seem to embody Bartleby's famous formula "I would prefer not to" as they express a refusal to follow the multiple injunctions of doing, of producing and of succumbing to the general hyperactivity of our modern societies.
During her residency in Clermont-Ferrand, Camila Cañeque tackled the symbols of speed that are Michelin tires and factories, drove in reverse on the Charade racing circuit, or invited herself to tuning rallies in the commercial area not far from Artistes en résidence’s workshop. Paradoxically hyper productive during her residency, the artist invites, on Wednesday September 6 at 6 p.m., to discover her studio, transformed for the occasion into a parking lot, a space for a break, where everything is at a standstill again.