SLIME OF UR LIFE: WORK DRINKS
Open: 6th -22nd June.
Paradise Works is pleased to present Slime Of Ur Life: Work Drinks, a solo exhibition by John Powell-Jones.
Work Drinks is part of a new body of work exploring the relationship Western culture has with 'work' and how this is informed by an ideology perpetuated through living within a hyper-capitalist/consumer state of shared consciousness. Work is no longer a part of one's existence, it is instead increasingly becoming the all-consuming reason for being, oozing over every aspect of life, the line between it and leisure blurred.
We live in a constant state of anxiety, ever aware of the looming shadow of unemployment, bombarded by the idea that success, financial wealth and ultimately happiness are all intrinsically linked. The Church has been replaced by the office, we bow down daily at the alter of J.O.B, plagued by the perpetual guilt of the sin of free time.
CHEERS!