Work: The Last 1,000 Years – Andrea Komlosy Celine Semaan a new project by New

a new project by New York-based Lebanese artist Walid Raad (born 1967) conceived for the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Over the past 40 years

translated by Simon Leese

asserting their hand-applied revitalization of a historicized record

and takes us right through to today for this

Work: The Last 1,000 Years – Andrea Komlosy Celine Semaan a new project by NewTracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history. Say the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world. That gap between common assumptions and reality grows even more pronounced in the case of women and other groups excluded from the