WER4 shelves, Amazon boxes, electronics, petg, nylon, metal, sound system.
Locked in the boxes, (ex-)Amazon workers talk about their experiences at the company and what led them to be locked in their box.
WER4 is a fictitious warehouse made up exclusively of these so-called intelligent boxes. As the company is already adept at automation technologies, it is getting its workers to submit to the rhythm of the machine. In this warehouse, those who have not kept up with the pace find themselves welded to the machine and their smart parcels.
WER4 proposes rethinking our relationship with consumption in the age of e-commerce. The fault lies not with consumers or employees, but with the systems that enable the deployment of these controversial technologies, which proletarianise the entire chain from production to purchase. The installation places the human at the centre of a company that aims to overshadow its workers, insofar as the company imagines itself operating in a few years' time in an entirely robotised and automated way.
collaboration with William Delgrande and Marcelline Chauveau
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