DOS

DOS (Labour Union House), 2004

I placed a new photograph of the Labour Union House on a billboard in front of a large shopping center. The initial impulse behind this work was the ‘conflict between my ideal public space and the real public space that is offered to me’. The billboard visually initiates communication between the employee, employer and shopper, beyond the control of some companies that try in various ways to dissuade their employees from joining unions. It also provokes a dialogue between the photographed functionalist architecture of the Labour Union House from 1932–1934 and the architectural ideology of shopping centers.