Artist Perspective: Artist Eugenia Lim shares a photo essay that features documentation from three large-scale, multimodal works exploring the intersection of art, labour and capital in different ways. Artificial Islands (Interior Archipelago) (2017) is a work that replicates, in sand, the monumental aims of Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, in order to critically engage with ideas of artificial ecology, labour and global capitalism. To create the work, Lim hired local Gadigal/Sydney workers who were paid at the average daily rate of a Dubai construction worker, drawing explicit links between art as ‘work’ and patterns of labour exploitation. Her work 24/7 (2021), meanwhile, explores the idea of sleep as a refuge from the relentless financialisation of human life and labour—a time and space that can’t be easily commodified or converted into productive capital. The third and final work in the essay is ON DEMAND (2019), a pedal-powered installation in which audience members take the place of gig workers and ride stationary bikes to generate power to view the video installation. The work was co-created with five gig economy workers, who Lim paid at the Miscellaneous Award 2010 rate, drawing attention to the lack of industrial coverage for both gig workers and visual artists.