Working Under Surveillance is HERSOID’s series on labour, monitoring, and the strange new intimacy between work and control.
Across the collection, farmhands, factory workers, gauchos, fire workers, and manual labourers are overlaid with facial recognition boxes, coded labels, and machine-like identifiers. The figures still carry the visual weight of physical work: tools, uniforms, hats, smoke, fields, machinery, industrial rooms. But the system around them has already translated their faces into information.
The series sits in the uncomfortable space between old labour and new surveillance. These are not futuristic scenes. They feel closer than that. A worker stands in a factory. A farmhand rests with a tool. Three gauchos line up against a wall. Everything appears ordinary until the face is boxed, measured, and filed away.
Rendered in HERSOID’s hand-drawn graphite linework, muted digital colour, halftone texture, and archival paper tones, Working Under Surveillance turns the working body into both subject and data point. It speaks to automation, workplace monitoring, industrial control, biometric tracking, and the quiet erosion of privacy under systems that call themselves efficient.
This collection is for collectors drawn to surreal figurative art, political art, labour imagery, surveillance culture, dystopian wall art, and contemporary works that make ordinary work look quietly watched.
