In it, the author presents the endless rolling of the stone as the action of a man who has chosen the freedom of being an active participant in the world.
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Sedevchev refers to Albert Camus' essay "The Myth of Sisyphus". With the title of his project, the artist offers a philosophical reading of its content. In this sense, Sedevchev sees the notebooks as a subjective monument to the suffered joy of belonging to the global community of the living. The historical context raises precisely the issue of free access to information, "which during wartime and totalitarian regimes was a priceless privilege inaccessible to ordinary people," the organizers commented. Although the information was not up to date at the time the notebooks were created, the artist observed that their author transcribed it with meticulous consistency and careful handwriting. The transcriptions themselves are from the Meyers Lexikon and Larousse encyclopedias and were carried out years after the data was published in the original editions.
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Some of them will be shown in the exhibition One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy from August 25 at the Plus 359 gallery, organizers said.
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At the heart of the project are notebooks filled in between 19 with transcribed data on residents in major cities around the world.
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Artist Radostin Sedevchev presents the idea of Sisyphus' work in the context of the theme of free access to information in several different eras.