Prosecco Wisdom (2024)
Prosecco Wisdom (2024) traces two characters’ pursuit for contentment in the abject capitalist backdrop of a holiday paradise designed for couples and groups. It references the YouTube trend of girls’ post-breakup solo-travels to all-inclusive resorts as they search for meaning and agency in a context that was not designed for them.
Lizzy Deacon and Ika Schwander are an artist duo based between London and Amsterdam. They work with video, performance and drawing. Deacon and Schwander’s work references the fragility of the influencer-capitalism aspirational model and its proneness to obsessions, compulsions and neuroses. With Prosecco Wisdom they portray the specific abandonment of digital labor, often hidden beneath the glossy veneer of leisure and luxury, and show that commodifying the self as content is an exhausting and void exercise. Improvisation, humour, and movement are central to their practice and their highly collaborative ethos enables conceptual and aesthetic risks.