With their latest solo exhibition at acb Gallery, the Borsos Lőrinc artist duo is stepping away from the dark, pathos-driven world-building strategies that have characterized their recent work. Instead, under the banner of a newly imagined art movement called Neo Inertia, they proclaim an “apotheosis of inaction” and “absence of stakes.”
Paradoxically, however, this is done through an aesthetic of excess and dispersion, as they revisit both their earlier critical art practices and the questions raised in their subsequent speculative phase. This time, self-irony replaces self-critique, while playful, effortless lightness infused with absurd humor takes the place of drab, grand gestures.
The latest Borsos Lőrinc exhibition, titled Neo Inertia, emerges from a sensual conceptualism, in which the “de-designing” and “de-functionalizing” (Boris Groys) program merges with the bricolage aesthetic of Arte Povera and the spontaneous energy of punk. Quick sketches and fanciful doodles: art for oneself, not foreign hurdles.