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Rebecca Rothenborg, The Multitasker, shirt, shirt sleeves, steel, giloform, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, The Multitasker, shirt, shirt sleeves, steel, giloform, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, Straight Jacket, steel, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, I’ve Been Running Around (All Day), pants, steel, metal spray paint, chicken wire, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, Intellectual Proletarian, safety vest, textile, steel, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, The Professional, aluminium, steel, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, Burnout, wax, paraffin, cotton wicks, pigments, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, It’s Your Own Fault You Should Have Started Saving Before You Were Born, shirt, textile, steel, 2019
Rebecca Rothenborg, Camouflage, ties, steel chain, steel, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, Corporate Collar & Uneasy Is the Neck That Wears a Collar
Rebecca Rothenborg, Corporate Collar, aluminium, 2019
Rebecca Rothenborg, Uneasy Is the Neck That Wears a Collar, steel, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, Burnout (2), wax, paraffin, cotton wicks, pigments, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, What Doesn’t Kill You Doesn’t Kill You, safety vest, textile, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, What Doesn’t Kill You Doesn’t Kill You (detail), safety vest, textile, 2021
Rebecca Rothenborg, Hand Rake, steel, wood, 2021
Installation view
We need to get down to it
get down to business
efficiently, productively
proactively and constructively
but let’s circle back
to where we work our fingers to the bone
for somebody else’s profit
somebody else’s health
somebody else’s wealth
Working like a dog, working it off
Until we’re overworked, underappreciated
(But in time: duly compensated)
and burnt out from all the irons in the fire
Maybe we’re going to make it
Maybe we’re not
Am I independently self-employed,
or just an intellectual proletarian?
You have to either do the dirty work or the leg-work to make it work
to keep it working
keep us working
So: I’m working through it,
working it off
to one day reach the top
I have a self-proclaimed epiphany: it’s all about efficiency