On the Necessity of Slowness in Art → Written by curator @gallegosfer ☕️ Almost always, the best thing to do is to do nothing. probably not the best advice for life in general, but in art I think it does apply. Sometimes we will be working in something in the same way for a long time, and we do it because the form responds to who we are as individuals and the way we respond to the world. But in an era of content, with the expectation of a rapid flow of information, the push for doing something different, something new, something that resonates with current trends, can be overwhelming for artists and organizations, resulting in rushed, not well thought pieces of art and exhibitions. In these cases it’s important to understand what’s the reason we started making art in the first place, or in the case of organizations, what's the reason it exists in the first place, what was it that we wanted to do, and why. Form should always respond to the necessity it covers and I ask myself if these reasons are so easily transformed in a way that an organization or an artist should change their ways. We see these cycles happen throughout history, things always seem to come back to the classics for good reason, and the reason is that classics are classics in the first place because they go straight to the feeling, disregarding the trends of the era. But for an artist to keep making sense to themselves it’s very hard to walk a straight line when the world seems to be going someplace else. Organizations should know this too. There will always be ups and lows, no one asks questions when things go well, but when they get slow we tend to panic, we start looking for who’s responsible and for ways of making things go up again, the problem is that doing that is unsustainable, we don’t see that what people wants more than anything is a place they can call home, a place that’s dependable in what they offer, something genuine that makes sense in itself. People don’t want to be responsible for what they consume, they may enjoy pointing fingers and being listened to, but they will abandon anything as soon as they realize it didn’t work the way they wanted it, leaving organizations (and artists) in a very difficult place. My advice is simple: be genuine, make the effort to understand yourself and act accordingly to what you believe in. If that level of truth is achieved, what you do as an artist or organizations will be very difficult to be denied, and even if people get bored a little for a while and go explore other things, they will always come back eventually, because we all need things to be dependable in this fast changing new world we live in. (Raindrops on Palm Trees by @bagdelete)