Afterwork by Rodrigo Valenzuela

In conjunction with the exhibition in our physical gallery, Assembly presents “Afterwork” by Rodrigo Valenzuela. Based on the ghostly absence of workers in an indeterminate time and place, this work is at once futuristic and harking back to a century ago. In staged sets suggesting abandoned factories, Valenzuela wishfully foments a revolution, enabling workers powerless in the face of relentless international movement of capital to flee or perhaps overrun their workplaces. As in a science-fiction universe where we feel a potential reality just out of reach of our present, Valenzuela’s scenes meld mechanical objects with steam or smoke, suggestive of steel manufacturing, a cloud of sweat-the...View all