Court, 2004, 224 sweatshop tables, paint, 2 rolling steel warehouse ladders, 2 basketball hoops each with net and backboard, 12' 4" × 28' × 70' 7"
Installation view, Secession, Vienna, 2003
Using mass-produced sweat-shop products as material -- both in the artistic medium sense, as well as in the sense of artistic content --- in the fashioning of extremely haunting and poignant artworks that bespoke of global commerce and the extreme unbalance of )economic) power.
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