Lauren Lee McCarthy is currently featured in a group show, titled Slow Manifesto, at the A plus A Gallery in Venice. The show highlights the 2025 fellows of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice.
Slow Manifesto explores in-depth the theme of desire, poised between manipulation and authenticity, through artists. In contemporary times, manipulation of desire is indeed exercised through constant social pressures, which turns it into a mechanism fuelling consumeristic dynamics. This leads to a crisis of subjectivity: the individual becomes trapped in a circuit that compels him to reproduce sterile market logics such as desiring on command, overwhelmed by external inputs.In a world saturated with stimuli, the exhibition invites visitors to slow down and reflect as a revolutionary act, freeing themselves from external conditioning and reclaiming the right to cultivate an authentic desire.
