NICO MUREȘ: The Office After Dark
Sandwich (Combinatul Fondului Plastic)
Exhibition open: 14.11.2024 - 31.01.2025
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photo credits: Rareș Toma
NICO MUREȘ: The Office After Dark
Exhibition open: 14.11.2024 - 31.01.2025
Sandwich (Combinatul Fondului Plastic)
Sandwich is happy to welcome you to an environment where purpose is replaced by empty repetition!
In a world that glorifies productivity, The Office After Dark unearths the darker side of corporate lifestyle, likening it to an eternal night where vitality fades, connections dwindle, and personal identity is drained by the demands of work.
The micro-universe created by Nico Mureș is centered around the metaphor of a modern worker, kept awake by caffeine, mentally and emotionally exhausted. Trapped in ongoing cycles of burnout and sleep deprivation, she is vampirically relying on energy drinks. The futility of a lifetime spent producing with no personal meaning or fulfillment weighs heavy on her. Being a corporate woman, the chosen character naturally faces additional pressure to prove her own worth and be perfect across the spectrum. For her, the glass ceiling has never been lower.
Known for their adaptability, able to survive in the harshest environments with minimal resources, cockroaches are both enviable and despised. Beneath the glossy surface of corporate life, they skitter under desks, lurk in the shadows, and appear beneath flickering lights, hinting at instability and decay, emblematic of a workforce that must keep going in a hostile environment—unseen, undervalued, yet expected to persist at all costs.
Surrounded by the undead, visitors have a chance at reflecting on their own bearing within this haunting, ever-productive after-dark office.
Nicoleta Mureș (b.1996) is a Romanian artist based in Madrid, working with digital collages, video, animation, 3D, AR and generative AI. Her practice is a continuous observation of the virtual body under different stress related situations, anxieties, fear. Her goal is to further investigate the possibilities and limitations that put the flesh, be it real or digital in the spotlight.
Her work was exhibited, among others, at Sandwich, /SAC, Museum of Art Arad, Zina, PLATO Ostrava, Ivan, Jecza, CAV, at LISTE Art Fair Basel and Viennacontemporary, while also taking part in various festivals, like Tour de Moon, Simultan, Digerati Emergent Media Festival, ADAF.
This event is part of the Project “(IM)material Girls”.
A cultural Project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The Project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The AFCN is not responsible for the Project content of the project or the manner in which the results of the Project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
