Getxophoto International Image Festival – Bilbao
Edition 2023
1. – 25. June
Curator : Maria Ptqk
PAUSE !
At the beginning of 2021, fear gripped the economic elites as millions of workers began to desert their jobs, first in the United States, where the figures reach 4 million people per month, and little by little in Europe as well. It was nicknamed The Great Resignation and the phenomenon has been interpreted as an effect of the pandemic lockdown, which caused something unprecedented in the post-industrial West: the interruption of production. From one day to the next, there was time to think, get perspective and reassess priorities. Mental space was freed up. Psychologists and sociologists consider that this surplus of time, this immense and unexpected global PAUSE! is at the heart of the mass resignation that has affected workers with high salaries and those with the most precarious jobs alike. Apparently, the reason is not pay but emotional exhaustion.