Johnatan Monk - My Life in The Lives of Others (1969-2013)
Hanging sheets in the sun to dry, writing up a recipe, getting your hair done at a beauty salon, writing in your diary or having a body massage are just some of the activities we perform on a regular basis as we go about our daily lives. Some of them become "plain pleasures", as Jane Bowles would say. They give us satisfaction and make even the most primary things much more attractive, therefore dignifying the infra-ordinary, that which is so common as to seem insignificant.
Finding the extraordinary on a kitchen shelf, having a sudden revelation in the bathroom or experiencing the pleasure of smelling freshly baked bread straight out of the oven are facts that make our daily routines different, because no action is ever the same, however often it is repeated: the time factor, the actual experience and the context in which the action is performed all vary. The aim is to find the true revolution in the greatness of the ordinary and turn daily acts into art and art into a daily habit, like the happy fact, like a popular mechanics of feelings.
- Inés