Artworks Currently Shown at Hypha Gallery South Bank/ The Atrium
Hannah Arendt in 'The Human Condition' defines labour as a repetitive action necessary to sustain biological life, cyclical with an unclear beginning and end. When the body focuses on repetitive endurance, its connection to solar time becomes disoriented. This forces a new kind of durability that embodies itself as fatigue. Where labour is automated and processing speeds surpass the body’s capabilities, it raises an important question: what happens when machines never stop but humans need to?
The exhibition ‘24/7’ brings forth works looking into the connection humans share with time and labour. Presenting kinetic works that function independently from solar time, these ideas around duration are considered where they actively operate throughout the exhibition regardless of an audience or not. Paired with static works ruminating upon apparatus, altering states and the body, the exhibition seizes to open questions surrounding the shifting relationship of labour with technology.
Hypha Gallery South Bank/ The Atrium
Hypha Gallery South Bank, 42 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9EU

