LLC Redux (A Great Place for Great People to Do Great Work)
2018
Several lightboxes

LLC Redux (A Great Place for Great People to Do Great Work) is a totem of stacked lightboxes that pays homage to the small businesses that make the neighborhood of Satwa one of Dubai’s most vibrant and endangered communities. Each signboard is a satirical mash-up. Shopfront names are replaced with language borrowed from job advertisements in the Gulf, with visuals that echo the psychedelic and copyright-agnostic imagery of old Dubai. Walking between the light boxes, visitors encounter familiar dichotomies — old vs. new, high vs. low, and global vs. local — and are thereby confronted with critical, contemporary questions: How do you protect workers? How do you make a living in a global economy? How do you spread opportunity?