DELULU

Group Exhibition at Gallery 42, curated by Ruby Yates

“Culturally, the term signals a generational strategy for navigating instability, economic precarity, algorithmic obsolescence, and the collapse of linear career paths. Delusion functions as a psychological coping mechanism. To be delulu is to turn creative practice into a weapon against the inertia of a tightening arts economy, the scarcity mindset that governs contemporary creative labour, and the homogenising force of digital hyper-visibility. We recognise the mindset that governs contemporary labour and insist that belief itself is a form of creative labour, a testament to resilience.”

An excerpt from Artist Statement written by Nikita Mettananda