Cayetana Suzuki and Ava Kutner are excited to present Temp Job, a short pop-up exhibition featuring the work of nine artists, including Suzuki and Kutner: Denise Corley, Tom Fitzgibbon, Erika Ranee, Alexander Shaw, Barrie Schwartz, Libby Stew, and Iwan Traeger-Payne.
The exhibition unfolds within an active office environment, which is both the site and subject of the presentation. Approached through a subtly ironic lens, the space is reimagined as an archaeological and anthropological relic—an ecosystem rendered increasingly obsolete within the contemporary workforce. Corporate signage, cubicles, and desks are repositioned as artifacts, inviting viewers to consider the office as a site already in the process of historical sedimentation.
The juxtaposition of non-commercial artistic practices with the standardized structures of corporate labor produces a deliberate tension. While these domains are often understood as fundamentally opposed, Temp Job suggests an emerging convergence. In the context of rapid technological transformation, particularly the rise of AI, both artistic and administrative forms of labor are subject to new conditions of precarity, reproducibility, and devaluation.
The works on view engage the framework through a range of approaches. Some operate in deliberate opposition to the environment. They emphasize expressiveness and artistic authenticity, foregrounding gesture, movement, and the conditions of making. Other works directly address labor and corporate culture in form and presentation, adopting the language of the office through the rigidity of the environment.
Through the contrast of artistic practice and corporate infrastructure, Temp Job invites viewers to contemplate systems of labor, value, and obsolescence. Ultimately, questioning what kinds of work and workers are preserved and which are left behind.
Join us for the opening Friday, April 24th, from 7-10pm. Email
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