working Moments

For this collaboration, photographer Sabine Gruhn and artist Noëmi Lakmaier have brought together their diverse practices to create a series of unsettling, yet humorous images taken in the offices of London based arts organisations.

Presented on ultra-slim, commercial light boxes the images each depict a well-dressed woman, working at an office desk. On closer inspection the scene becomes more absurd. Seemingly unaware, the woman is wet, her hair and clothes dripping; she is not wearing trousers and reveals a speck of childish underwear.

Working Moments sets out to investigate individual identity and perception in a success driven working environment, exploring power and insecurity, the drive to belong as well as feelings of self-doubt and otherness.

Working Moments is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Angela Nikolakopoulou, Shape, and HSBC.

Many thanks also to Camden Arts Centre, DACS, Four Corners, Photographers’ Gallery, Shape, and Whitechapel Gallery and their staff for assisting with this project.

Download the full press release as a PDF here

Please RSVP for the Private View by emailing benf@shapearts.org.uk or calling 020 7424 7363.