“With everyday life advancing so rapidly, many of the jobs that had previously been done by man were now done by machine.”

In the work Factory-Plastic-Worker, the artist Gal Kinan is visiting two factories in Taiwan that still produces plastic toys. Plastic toys factories use to be part of Taiwan industrial economy, but in the last few years most of those factories have moved to produces in China. In a series of visits to two factories still working in Taiwan the artist is researching the history of the factories, the products that they are producing and the workers that produces it.

In these visits the artist is trying to explore the environments of the factories as working places. She is interested in the production systems that the factories are using in relation to the workers.  Alongside these social issues she is also following the different stages of the plastic material from its raw beginning point till it become to be a usable toy.

To accompany this work she is showing a few sculptures that look like an enlarge wind up mechanism from plastic. Here the artist has found inspiration in the sculptural language of windup plastic toys.  “I feel that there is sarcasm and stupidity in those simple mechanical toys but also naivety, and humor.  The plastic material gives these sculptures a “hollow” and “standard” feeling.  But the fact that each sculpture is a unique design makes it one of its kind and different from the others”.