A start-of-the-week slump by Colombian artist Johan Barrios, whose eerie but compelling paintings often depict people draped heavily over furniture or collapsed in a pile on the floor. It’s easy to read such works as a comment on contemporary burnout culture, especially when the subjects are dressed in work attire like this floppy figure. But, for Barrios, they serve as a musing on “detachment and the separation of spirit or essence from physical form.”
