Who cares?
Adriana Maar
Year: 2025
Method: Painting
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 23.6 x 31.5 in / 60 x 80 cm
Weight 2.7 lb / 1.3 kg
Exhibitions: ArtFest Querétaro 2025
This artwork is SOLD. Prints available for sale on Saatchi Art.
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More about the artwork
Who cares? is a visual manifesto about choosing yourself—about living without constantly negotiating with other people’s expectations or shrinking your desires to fit what feels acceptable. It begins with a simple but radical question: what if joy didn’t need permission? What if happiness wasn’t something to justify, explain, or postpone? This piece embraces the idea that life is not a rehearsal, nor a checklist dictated by external approval.
The stack of books at the center of the work reads like a personal doctrine rather than a polite guide. Eat the cake. Buy the shoes. Take the risk. Drink champagne. Travel more. Kiss the guy. Do fun shit. Be you, not them. Each phrase functions as both advice and defiance—a refusal to treat pleasure, curiosity, or desire as something frivolous or irresponsible. Together, they form a language of agency that resists restraint.
I wanted these books to feel like a handbook for living fully, built from small but decisive acts. Not grand gestures, but everyday choices that quietly shape a life. The kind of decisions that accumulate over time and become a way of being—choosing enjoyment over guilt, intuition over fear, experience over hesitation.
At its core, Who cares? questions the invisible rules we inherit and rarely challenge. Who decides what is too much? Who defines what is appropriate, mature, or sensible? So often, those limits are internalized voices rather than truths. By reducing them to a simple question, the work exposes how fragile and arbitrary those constraints really are.
This piece is also about reclaiming desire without apology. About allowing yourself to want more—not more in excess, but more in alignment with who you are. It pushes back against the idea that fulfillment must be earned through restraint, discipline, or silence. Instead, it proposes that pleasure, curiosity, and risk are not distractions from life, but essential parts of it.
Visually, the composition balances playfulness with intention. The bold colors and glowing outlines echo the energy of temptation and excitement, while the repetition of stacked forms suggests accumulation—of experiences, memories, and choices. It is not chaos, but a deliberate embrace of abundance, where enjoyment and authenticity coexist.
Who cares? is an invitation to rewrite your own rules. To stop asking whether you’re allowed to want what you want, and start listening to what feels true. It is a reminder that a life lived honestly will always matter more than one lived cautiously.
You don’t owe the world restraint, explanations, or smaller dreams. You owe yourself a life that feels like it’s truly yours.”
Adriana Maar