The Personal Reminder exhibition (2022) integrates an altar-object, a performance, and a film into a cohesive narrative on mechanisms of control. The figure of "The Boss" serves as a multi-dimensional symbol of a system where the individual is both an object of discipline and a participant in power structures.
In capitalist society, bureaucratic frameworks impose a rationalization that subordinates individual freedom to collective norms, symbolized here by the worker's wristwatch.
The "Personal Reminder" emerges as a symbol of resistance—an object resembling a watch but fulfilling an entirely new, autonomous function. This tool helps the protagonist liberate himself from the traps set by "The Bosses," allowing for regained focus and a refusal to stray from his chosen path. The project examines the threshold where organizational structures begin to erode individual agency, providing the necessary props to break away from imposed regulations.
