Following the extended production of home workout videos that overwhelms social media platforms, visual artist PASHIAS appropriates – cleverly and with humor – the format and aesthetic qualities of digitized communication means, inviting an audience to mimic images and gestures that characterize his recent performance practice. In the “Artist’s Workout Guide”, PASHIAS proposes a set of physical exercises “to keep you in fit shape and sharp focus” in an attempt to connect with viewers through their home screens, according to the new standards safeguarding personal and social well-being. The steps to be followed take reference from martial arts, the sports of archery, basketball, and from scenes reminiscent of Olympic gymnastics. The body creatively acquires abdominal ‘visuals’ in seconds, learns to construct a bow out of bull’s horns, finds the courage to transform into a shooting target, and self-applauds to achieve the sentiment of ‘victory’.
