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The title of the exhibition borrows from the widely discussed notion of “La Perruque”, (“The Wig” in English) coined by philosopher Michel de Certeau in his book The Practice of Everyday Life, published in 1984, to look at current predicaments around value production and value extraction in the workplace.
The term broadly refers to any type of work one does under the guise of working for one’s employer. Practicing “The Wig” can be anything as simple as using the company’s computer to write personal emails during office hours. “The worker who engages in the wig” says De Certeau “actually …