ALL & 1

All & 1
TPU Fabric, Readymade Teddy Bear, Metal, Acrylic, Motor
2024
Size Variable

The work explores the invisible threads between labour and intimacy, tracing how capitalism infiltrates the most tender spaces—childhood, domesticity, and the hands of women. Inspired by the past industrial rhythms, where home assembly lines blurred the boundaries between familial care and factory exploitation, the work mirrors the paradox of individuality within mechanised repetition.

Through the repetitive process of making teddy bears in Collective Infection, a sense of perpetual exhaustion and powerlessness emerges, prompting me to explore the constraining aspects of labour. As well as how industrialisation infiltrates intimacy, turning love and labour into interchangeable currencies. All & 1 exposes the violence lurking beneath nostalgia, framing cuteness as a site of exploitation. The inflatable’s hollow interior, packed with disposable replicas, mirrors capitalism’s false promise of abundance, where workers are both consumed and rendered invisible.