David Haines

Man Reading Messages (Pawel)

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Year 2020
Medium Graphite on paper
Dimensions 29.5 x 20.9 cm

About the work

This drawing is part of an ongoing series of portraits I have made of online emotional labourers.

The subjects are found sitting and waiting for clients to appear in the chatroom. They are surrounded by exotic backdrops, maps and cityscapes which seek to counter the claustrophobia of the staged interiors. Lost in the world of their smartphone they find themselves in front of the two- way mirror, unconcerned by and unaware of the presence of the viewer. Referencing not only our own contemporary, isolated absorption with the screen, the works also point to 17th century Dutch painting with its glimpses of private domestic spaces where the subjects received letters, played music and hinted at desires.

← Karl Haendel

Hands ‘n Things

Mathew Hale →

Untitled

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