About this body of work: The Gupta Leaks of 2017 confirmed suspicions of pervasive corruption in South African. What was particularly shocking were revelations of complicity by multinational corporations and businesses. A c c o u n t is a response to these events, and attempts to render the abject nature of white collar crime.

I have done this by using materials that are either abject in themselves, such as mould, or that have been made abject, such as bread and desks that I manipulated in order to render them inedible or non-functional. I use bread as a metaphor because, being a basic food staple, it symbolically stands in opposition to the concept of greed. Further, the purpose of work is commonly referred to as the means by which to put ‘bread on the table’.

As the salaries of white collar workers provide for far more than this basic need, I have translated white collar corruption as a perversion of bread (see Below the Line (I), (II) and (III) series. Office furniture, particularly office desks and drawers, are another metaphor. Desk design implies a hierarchy of power, order and stability. By disrupting the physical integrity of the desk, I unmask these implicit messages (see Balance Remaining (2018)).

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