AUTOMATED WORLD
(RCA Degree Show)
This series features a collection of automated machines engaged in futile, fragmented, or absurd labour, interrogating the contradictions of automation under late capitalism. By translating performative service labour into mechanised, repetitive movements, the works critique the paradox of automation; its promise of efficiency alongside its reality of alienation, redundancy, and systemic fragility.
Employing perishable materials like ice cream with rigid mechanisms, creating a tension between indulgence and discipline. By engineering movements that resist completion or satisfaction, Louise examines how labour is aestheticised and mechanised under contemporary capitalism. Exposed circuitry and visible strain render invisible effort hyper-visible through repetition. Instead of presenting machines as metaphors of productivity, she frames them as sites of excess, failure, and persistence. Her sculptures confront the contradictions of mechanised existence; where desire and exhaustion co-exist, and labour loops in endless, unresolved gestures.