“Working 9 to 5 (Perpetual Office)” captures the rhythms of contemporary office existence through a perpetual video loop that distinguishes between standard working hours and after-hours periods. During business time, the piece presents composed shots of office minutiae – typing hands, fluorescent corridors, unchanging screens – accompanied by an internal monologue rendered in floating typography.
As 5 PM approaches, the work branches into various scenarios: sometimes the office powers down, while at other times the worker remains, caught in overtime limbo. The installation employs subtle repetition and variation, where similar actions recur but never exactly repeat. An iPhone-style clock persistently marks time, highlighting the gap between measured and experienced time in corporate environments where the boundary between human and system increasingly blurs.
