Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Explore the Gulf Between Working at a Hip Office and Cleaning It

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s latest show at Postmasters centered on a new fictional video titled Cleaner—the second in their “Workstations” trilogy, which began with Broker (2016)—that explores how stark the disjuncture between blue- and white-collar labor has become. The protagonist is a Polish woman employed as a cleaner at a hip office (the video was shot at the Brooklyn headquarters of Kickstarter, where the McCoys were artists-in-residence in 2018), and her movem