Exhibitions
The laying hen syndrome: rethinking time from art
Stopping time in Cardedeu and rethinking life through art as resistance to contemporary urgency and productivity.
In a society driven by urgency and constant productivity, time has ceased to be an experience and has become a requirement. The Laying Hen Syndrome is born precisely from this tension: an exhibition at the Tomàs Balvey Archive Museum in Cardedeu that will be on view until May 25 that questions contemporary acceleration and its consequences on the way we live, imagine and project the future.
Through the proposals of Laura Llaneli, Biel Llinàs, Raquel Friera and Xavier Bassas, the exhibition questions the forms of everyday self-exploitation that we often assume as inevitable. Far from being limited to an abstract critique, the works open up cracks: other rhythms, other perceptions, other ways of inhabiting time.
The project of the Institute of Suspended Time, developed by Friera and Bassas, dialogues with the practices of Llaneli and Llinàs to place time as a central subject of reflection. It is not just about measuring it or representing it, but about overflowing it, interrupting its linear and productive logic to recover spaces of pause and experience.
Curated by Mercè Alsina and Enric Mauri, the exhibition articulates a set of objectual, sound, installation and performance proposals that invite us to rethink the use of time in contemporary society. In this sense, art is claimed not only as a space of representation, but also as an act of temporal resistance.
The laying hen syndrome does not offer closed answers, but rather necessary questions: is it possible to slow down? Can we imagine futures outside of productivist logic? And, above all, how can we reclaim time as a shared, collective space open to possibility?
In a present saturated with immediacy, this exhibition becomes an invitation to stop. To listen. To rethink time—and, with it, the future.
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