Eleni Papazoglou

I find myself in the studio playing work. I am playing factory, production line, shop. I work with items of labour that enhance performance and claim efficiency. I perform actions that promise validity. I stamp, and hole punch, label, package and advertise. I labour by engaging with elements that speak of industrial production and commerce. I play; I use these elements in nonsensical ways, ignoring their function and celebrating their mundane beauty. Objects are blown up, price tags and hanging mechanisms become elements of decoration. Function and efficiency are celebrated through subversion. This is what works looks like I guess: it creates value through the performance of actions. This is what play looks like too: it questions value through the performance of actions.

Exhibited at Squeezebox (2021), Collective Ending, curated by Georgia Stephenson, Elliot Fox and Ted Le Swer, alongside work by artists Niccolo Binda, Lucas Dupuy, Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Clark Keatley & Jinia Tasnin.

Exhibited at The Factory Project (2021), Curated by JEROME, organised by Thorp & Stavri, Tate & Lyle Factory, London.