Body Shop

There’s a human cost hiding in your car, your cotton t-shirt, your canned tomatoes. We made the corporate exploitation of Uyghur forced labor harder to miss.

Since 2017, three million predominantly Muslim Uyghur people have been arbitrarily detained in western China, part of a state-sponsored campaign of intimidation and forced assimilation. Detainees’ forced labor factors in the supply chains of 17 global industries but due to censorship and corporate obfuscation, most consumers don’t know that brands they know and love are selling them Uyghur exploitation.

We partnered with The Elie Wiesel Foundation to create “Made in China,” a gallery exhibition in Chelsea revealing the human cost hiding within your car, your cotton t-shirt, your can of tomatoes. The arresting image of the central work — a Tesla Model Y made of human forms — forced casual gallery strollers to stop and reckon with a difficult, unhidden truth. Because, as Elie Wiesel taught, you can’t stop a genocide until you stop looking away.