Chris Oakley

Still image from “The Catalogue“. Single Channel Video. (5:29). 2004

Note on “The Catalogue”

Crystallizing a vision of ‘us seen by them’, The Catalogue explores the codification of humanity on behalf of corporate entities. Through the manipulation of footage captured from life in the retail environment, it places the viewer into the position of a remote and dispassionate agency, observing humanity as a series of units whose value is defined by their spending capacity and future needs.