Technologies of Care surveys over a decade of artistic production by Italian, New York-based artist Elisa Giardina Papa. Her work explores digital platforms, lost or forgotten forms of knowledge and desire, and gender roles within a constantly evolving virtual landscape.

The exhibition brings together a trilogy examining how human labor and care are inevitably transformed within digital economies: Technologies of Care (2016), a series of interviews documenting forms of affective labor outsourced through digital platforms; Cleaning Emotional Data (2020), a video installation exploring new forms of labor precarity tied to the cleaning of data for facial and emotional recognition algorithms; and Labor of Sleep (2017), which examines the new connotations of productivity associated with sleep and its constant quantification through digital devices. These works are complemented by When the Towel Drops (2016), an archival investigation into deleted scenes from popular films, censored by the Fascist Italian regime, broadly dealing with female sexuality and pleasure. Giardina Papa critically examines structures of power, labor, gender, and identity across physical and digital spaces, reminding us the ways human experience exceeds quantification and control.