Healthy Mind, Wealthy Body by Lena Arshakyan and Chiara Chiavazza
In these turbulent times, people are seeking comfort, faith and answers. This is where the promise of spirituality comes in, proposing solutions to all our existential questions. This raised demand attracts businesses, which commodify indigenous spiritual practices to make a profit off people’s existential dread.
Healthy Mind, Wealthy Body is an ironic guide which assists seekers on their path to enlightenment, pointing out the contradiction of qualifying a person’s spiritual value with the purchase of products and services. Its goal is to make readers reevaluate their relationship with spirituality being aware of the absurdity of the way westerners commodify and exploit it.
Continuous text and headlines are set in Allianz by Extraset. Footnotes and continuous text in the conclusion are set in Inconsolata by Raph Levien. The book has 352 pages and measures 11.5×20 cm. Printed on Munken Print Cream 2.0, 80g/m² paper. It was made as a student project at Elisava, Barcelona, in 2023.
