In this exhibition, contemporary artists reflect on Camus’ absurdism and the role of the artist. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was the king of Ephyra who was punished by the gods for his greed and craftiness (some stories have him outsmarting the gods who tried to punish him) by being forced to push an enormous boulder up a hill. ‘To work and create ‘for nothing’, to sculpture in clay, to know that one’s creation has no future, to see one’s work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries – this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions’. And just when I thought I couldn’t go on reading, because I knew that feeling of claustrophobic apprehension, the hero of the book mentioned a quote by French author and philosopher Albert Camus: One must imagine Sisyphus happy. According to Camus, the absurd artist is someone who observes the everyday without expressing hope or passing judgment (and is satisfied with this role). In one of the chapters of his book, Camus focuses specifically on the role of the artist. Camus suggests that we can imagine Sisyphus to be happy because he accepts the futility of his task as part of life. Albert Camus considers Sisyphus to be happy because he accepts his hopeless situation and performs his task perfectly. The book (by Albert camus)ends with the line one must imagine sisyphus happy to show that it is a personal choice to decide about your psychological state irrespective of the vagueness and pointlessness of life.one must be happy in the ordeals that life presents simply because we have no control over it. Even so, his outlook also contains an element of resistance: the absurd man stubbornly resists life’s senselessness by choosing to live instead of committing suicide, therefore accepting life as it is. The absurd man accepts the situation as it is because the universe remains incomprehensible to us. In essence, life is pointless but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth living.
He wanted us to imagine Sisyphus happy so we.
In the Myth of Sisyphus (1942) he describes the characteristics of the absurd man. Sisyphus is happy because he has accepted the punishment assigned to him.
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