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Lúa Coderch’s first solo show at The Ryder Projects centers on the difficulties in forming a language for how we care for ourselves and how we care for others. exhausted and exuberant, a social diagnosis proposed by Jan Verwoert, illustrates the affective pressure to constantly reproduce our capacity to “show up,” for our lovers, our friends, our work, or something that links them all together in the age of network-ed being. It is a pressure to perform, and a difficulty in articulating dissent as performativity shapes consciousness and language. In Coderch’s works, we are invited to inhabit this paradox and sit with these contradictions.
It is perhaps no coincidence that these two words, exhausted and exuberant, etymologically relate to dripping/sucking. -Ex is the latin for out. In the case of -ex(hausted) it comes from “drained out,” quite literally “out” + haurire ‘draw (water) taking liquid from the earth. -Ex(uberant) is put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”),…
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Lúa Coderch’s first solo show at The Ryder Projects centers on the difficulties in forming a language for how we care for ourselves and how we care for others. exhausted and exuberant, a social diagnosis proposed by Jan Verwoert, illustrates the affective pressure to constantly reproduce our capacity to “show up,” for our lovers, our friends, our work, or something that links them all together in the age of network-ed being. It is a pressure to perform, and a difficulty in articulating dissent as performativity shapes consciousness and language. In Coderch’s works, we are invited to inhabit this paradox and sit with these contradictions.
It is perhaps no coincidence that these two words, exhausted and exuberant, etymologically relate to dripping/sucking. -Ex is the latin for out. In the case of -ex(hausted) it comes from “drained out,” quite literally “out” + haurire ‘draw (water) taking liquid from the earth. -Ex(uberant) is put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”),…
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