Jill Magid

Jill Magid creates conceptual and performance-based works that examine the relationships between individuals and systems of power. Her practice often involves direct engagement with institutions—such as intelligence agencies, law enforcement, or corporate entities—where she navigates bureaucratic structures to reveal their human, legal, and emotional dimensions. Through interventions that combine documentation, writing, and visual media, Magid explores how authority, surveillance, and control shape everyday life. She frequently inserts herself into these systems, using strategies of compliance, intimacy, and negotiation to probe the boundaries between public and private, institutional and personal. Her projects challenge conventional notions of authorship and audience, as the work often emerges from the interplay between her actions and the responses of the institutions she engages. By turning observation, access, and procedural rules into artistic tools, Magid constructs works that make visible the unseen operations of power while inviting viewers to consider their own position within such structures. ...

Founded by Pamela Echeverría in Mexico City, LABOR opened in 2009 working with artists whose creative processes are based on long term research. They have a strong commitment with the visions and concerns that their artists have towards the contemporary social/political context. They work with a mix of young and mid-career artists, both Mexican and international. With whom they work closely and assume an active role in the projects they develop. The work of these artists address topics such as value and exchange; economic systems and social structures; the exploitation of natural resources, the ethics of human behaviour, and the hidden political structures of society. ...