We Are In It Together

2023
906 ft²
office furniture, stationery, printed stock images (via freepik.com) on 8.5” x 11” office papers, transparent tape.

In building this installation, I envisioned the experience of being a nameless replaceable employee that no one can tell your face apart, to become one with other lifeless office furniture and supplies—an object, to be nothing more than just another business expense. Emphasizing the void of suffocation resulted from the US corporate homogeneity, I enclosed the entire space with repeated patterns of the stock images.
The search results for “Corporate Employees” on Freepik.com were images of smiley people in suits in office settings. Some of the image titles are:
“cheerful-multi-ethnic-managers-discussing-business-approaches.jpg”,
“businesspeople-having-good-time-meeting.jpg”,
“four-successful-happy-diverse-business-colleagues.jpg”.

Installation View

Installation View Video (0:37)

Detail View

Installation View

Installation View

huyen tran

works

about

contact