The Office
Client:
The Office
(27 November 2003–18 January 2004),
The Photographers’ Gallery, 5-8 Great Newport Street, London
Curator Camilla Brown (Nee Jackson)
Year:
2003
“Love it or loathe it, the office remains at the centre of working life for most people, even more so in our current culture of long working hours. This exhibition brought together the work of 11 artists, alongside historical photographs, to explore the changing dynamics of office life and culture. Some of the works record the universal anonymity of the work environment, while others reveal moments of chaos and the disruption of the clinical corporate space. As seen in the videos and photographs in this show the worker has transformed over this time from automaton to actor, and the office has become the stage.”
Michael Schmidt's (b. 1945, Germany); David Moore's (b. 1961, UK);
Tim Davis (b. 1969, USA);John Pilson (b. 1968, USA); Sofia Hultan (b. 1972, Sweden); Lars Tunbjork's (b. 1956 Sweden);Jacqueline Hassink (b. 1966, The Netherlands) ;Julia Knop (b. 1971, Germany);Thomas Demand's (b. 1964, Germany) ;Niall Blankley (b. 1965, UK); Philip Kwame Apagya (b. 1958, Ghana)
© Lars Tunbjork, 2003.