8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton
CCA Wattis Institute•Jan 20, 2026 — Mar 07, 2026
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On SoiL Thornton by Daisy Nam and Diego Villalobos
For over a year, we’ve been thinking about labor, the theme of our research season at the Wattis Institute. This mammoth subject touches every aspect of our lives. Perhaps because it’s so interwoven with our daily existence, even leisure feels like work now. We are all exhausted and feel burnout. We need a moment of rest.
Once we started looking at and thinking about SoiL Thornton’s work, we couldn’t stop—and we still can’t. Rather than rewarding immediate consumption, their works create moments of pause, confusion, or delay, unfolding slowly and unevenly over time. Their language for credit lines attached to the works is clear and legible, offering insights but not answers. Throughout the months of conversations with the artist and each other, we’ve reflected on notions of value, decay, residue, death, calmness, rest, restlessness, life, and attention. Here are some observations.
–Daisy Nam and Diego Villalobos
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8 Hours of Rest: SoiL Thornton
CCA Wattis Institute•Jan 20, 2026 — Mar 07, 2026
Press Release
On SoiL Thornton by Daisy Nam and Diego Villalobos
For over a year, we’ve been thinking about labor, the theme of our research season at the Wattis Institute. This mammoth subject touches every aspect of our lives. Perhaps because it’s so interwoven with our daily existence, even leisure feels like work now. We are all exhausted and feel burnout. We need a moment of rest.
Once we started looking at and thinking about SoiL Thornton’s work, we couldn’t stop—and we still can’t. Rather than rewarding immediate consumption, their works create moments of pause, confusion, or delay, unfolding slowly and unevenly over time. Their language for credit lines attached to the works is clear and legible, offering insights but not answers. Throughout the months of conversations with the artist and each other, we’ve reflected on notions of value, decay, residue, death, calmness, rest, restlessness, life, and attention. Here are some observations.
–Daisy Nam and Diego Villalobos
We can…
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