Capitalist Cosmologies
Helen Knowles’s gif Capitalist Cosmologies reflects on the past and present exploitation of child labour in industrialised countries and our physical and spiritual relationship to the machine. The gifs and film juxtapose Louis Hines’ photographic works for the National Child Labour Committee depicting children working in factories – on looms and other such machines – in the early part of the 20th century, with analogue photographic studies of the artist’s and others’ own children ‘at work’ on their mobile phones and iPads, surfing the surveillance architectures of the internet.
This work was shown as part of the Cosmotechnics exhibition as part of Hannover Project, UCLAN
Watch a discussion about Cosmotechnics here.
Still from Capitalist Cosmologies GIF
Still from Capitalist Cosmologies