A question posed in 1969 by Mierle Laderman Ukeles' Maintenance Art Manifesto still echoes: what is the value of the labor that maintains, rather than creates?
Fifty-six years later, we are still asking this question, now turning the gestures of care and upkeep into a strange, interactive collage.
By transforming these repetitive acts of maintenance into objects of reflection, we ask: Can the gallery's gaze compel a societal one?
(1969, Original)