Video installation in which the video is projected onto the floor of the exhibition space. It portrays, in an overhead shot, six of the jobs that form the foundation of the economic structure of the division of labor, invisible jobs that ultimately sustain the global economy. That is to say, it consists of six small looped zenithal videos that play continuously one after another, emphasizing the mechanical movement involved in these jobs, such as construction work, urban cleaning, and domestic labor. The fact that it is projected on the floor signifies it as the foundation and the support for everything that happens "above", meaning other jobs and forms of economic circulation within a country. At the same time, these depicted jobs are often disregarded, poorly paid, and, above all, undervalued, as it is the people who carry them out that bear the externalization of these social costs, without which contemporary societies would "stall" and the idea of progress in modernity would be undermined. Therefore, by being projected in an unexpected, almost invisible place, the video produces an effect of "involuntary trampling", turning the piece into a direct critique of this act and of those who engage in it, forcing a reflection on what one does in their daily life without questioning, the hierarchy and sense of superiority in relation to the division of labor among social classes.
2017 © Claudia Uranga Alonso
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