The Platform
- type of object: video
- date: 2016
- material/technique: 1-channel video
- dimensions: 10'5"
- inventory No.: V-61
- image licensed under: CC BY-SA
The Platform was shot with a hidden camera by an oil platform worker. Like in The Weavers (2009), presenting the industrial landscape of Silesia, the artist highlights here a workplace that poses an environmental as well as occupational hazard. Offshore platform workers experience tough and dangerous working conditions, and their life while on the platform is a kind of limbo. Zachęta co-produced the film, and following the Brussels exhibition Common Affairs the artist donated it to our collection.