Publish at January 28 2026 Updated January 28 2026
It's not easy to achieve serenity after being bombarded with "impact" news or "alerted" dozens of times an hour about 1001 things that are "important", "urgent" or simply "stimulating" for your health, finances, children or work.
Oilwell intends to appease us by offering us meditation capsules, each more sarcastic than the last.
If you can't decide between a "smog breathing exercise" or "mindfulness drowning", you can also learn how to manage your journalistic state and receive advice based on your emotional state, ranging from "pre-traumatic stress" to "panic spiral", "reality avoidance" or "abysmal despair".
You can also create a meditative soundscape mixing storm noises, emergency sirens, screams, machinery, fire and flood.
A little extra advice to help you fall asleep? Instead of counting sheep, replace them with an endangered species.
A critical satire of the fossil fuel industry and, more broadly, of inaction in the face of the climate crisis, Oilwell effectively draws us into a reflection on the contemporary environmental situation and its effects.
We meditate well with Oilwell
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