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Industry of the Ordinary are a Chicago-based art collective founded in 2004.
Artist Statement
Industry of the Ordinary (Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson) seek to celebrate and investigate the quotidian. Working across media — installation, sculpture, performance, text, and social engagement — we examine the roles of labor, identity, and value in everyday life. Our work invites reflection on the overlooked and the familiar, revealing complexity, contradiction, and meaning in the ordinary. Balancing humor with sincerity, and irony with pathos, we aim to challenge assumptions about what is worthy of artistic attention. We believe that art should be accessible, provocative, and rooted in the shared experiences of public life.
Industry of the Ordinary
Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson
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