Watch Me Suffer is an interactive workplace simulator. Employees must smile while enduring mild electric shocks. A facial recognition system monitors their expressions – only those who manage to trick the system win.

The work highlights how emotional suppression is demanded within capitalist systems, and how those biologically predisposed to experience pain are inevitably punished. The idea came to me while I was sitting in an office, trying to stay composed through brutal menstrual cramps – pretending everything was fine.