CLINT ENNS - Time to Get Up

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – Time to Get Up

A bedroom, bare and desolate. On the disheveled bed sits a man, half in pajamas, half delirious, his hair disheveled, his gaze lost. In front of him stands a second figure, massive, wordless, with his back to the viewer. The title says it all: "Time to Get Up" – but everything about this scene refuses to let go.

Here, Enns condenses an image of stagnation, of the tenuous transition between sleep and reality, resignation and duty. The room is not a place of rest, but a prison of repetition. One might think of Beckett's characters, of a theater of the absurd in which every day begins with the same question: Why get up at all?

The work depicts with bitter humor how the banal—a morning in bed—becomes an existential farce. The body in bed seems like a reluctant witness to its own time, while the standing figure already embodies the next beat of routine.