Angel of Labour

video, 17'20''

2017

camera: Maria Grabareva


The rooms where I work as a maid have have names, not numbers (Burgundy, Silver, Jungle), this itself tunes up for an adventure.

The idea to film work process in reflections of specular surfaces appeared as a way to turn work into fun. In polished objects as if in parallel world everything seems different, deformed, awkward, and funny. In a shiny flower pot, a nickel-plated tap or a toilet paper holder we see not labour but a game of reflections, colors and shapes.

This ability to transform the everyday into a game, the mundane into the magical makes the second half of our consciousness where freedom and simplicity dwells.