Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Meunier’s social realism will be updated through the quote “New day, new money to be made”, taken from a song by Nicki Minaj addressing the ambient precarity. Time is money. Capitalist society hardly leaves us the time to perform a mission, and we already need to look for the next one. The rhythm of searching for work, finding new clients, making the job and getting paid is exhausting. The constant reinvention of the self in every challenging moment of uncertainty, became an obsessive, repetitive pattern in our postcolonial, post-proletarian, post-work conditions. These routines, in which one is kept captive, prevent the possibility to break through. Precarity is constructed to make change impossible. What about social welfare? Reality check? Paycheck. No time to lose.

Participating artists:

Kasper Bosmans
Aline Bouvy
Pauline Emond
Gaillard & Claude
Jerome Gardening
Marina Pinsky & Jonathan Boutefeu
Cléo Totti
Markus von Platen

With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, COCOF, VGC