You have my attention at The Merode, Brussels

Inspired by tic-toc debris, monastic manuscript production, or Shâhnâmeh Persian epic, the artists of the exhibition look into our ecologies and possible archeologies of attention, today’s scarcest ressource and one of the chief commodities.

In his groundbreaking book “The Ecology of Attention”, Yves Citton examined how many different environments, from search engines to performance art - condition our individual and collective attention in different ways.

In this context, the exhibition considers the intersections between todays attentional ecologies and practices of sustained attention, care, contemplation and attunement permeating historical arts and crafts, and seen through the eyes of contemporary artists.

This exhibition presents works by Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Mandy El-Sayegh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kholod Hawash, Kubra Khademi, Adrien Lucca, Adrien Vescovi and Anna Zemánková.