Brazilian artist Daniel de Paula's works continue this reflection on time, labour and the structures that contain our lives.
Rest against / against rest evokes the constant pressure to produce that hangs over us like a Damocles' sword. The phrase resonates with Boxer, the hardworking horse in Animal Farm, whose motto "I will work harder" embodies the obsessive condition in which existence becomes justified through continuous labour.
Lives / works takes its starting point from the familiar formula found in artists' biographies and institutional texts. By placing the two words alongside one another, de Paula exposes the subtle yet powerful relationship between labour and existence: the extent to which what we do has become inseparable from who we are.