TheMerode Art Salon: You Have My Attention by Elena Sorokina

This special guided tour led by the curator herself gives art enthusiasts the chance to deep-dive into TheMerode Art Salon’s present exhibition and learn more about its artists, artworks and meaning from the creative mind behind it.

Uniting works of both emergent and established artists, “You Have My Attention” is inspired by, in Sorokina’s words, “Tik-Tok debris, monastic manuscript production, or Shâhnâmeh Persian epic”.

The group show examines ecologies and possible archeologies of attention - a chief commodity of our society and today’s scarcest and most coveted resource. In his book “The Ecology of Attention”, Yves Citton for example examines how many different environments, from search engines to performance art, condition our individual and collective attention in various ways.

Each in their own way, the exhibited eight contemporary artists explore the intersections between today's attentional ecologies and practices of sustained attention, care, contemplation and attunement permeating historical arts and crafts.

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

Join us for an inspirational tour and get to know other art-loving members!

Portrait Elena Sorokina: ©Lucie Cermakova