Corporate Dreams

Built as a cultural and visual record of workplace disillusionment, Corporate Dreams is an accumulation of film stills, memes, screenshots, quotes, timelines, and research fragments that map how the corporate dream eroded into irony, burnout, and cynicism. From Office Space, Succession, Severance, and other works, these narratives consistently reveal the workplace as a site of tension, hierarchy, and quiet struggle.

Across these stories, familiar patterns emerge. Younger generations enter corporate systems with expectations that clash with reality, encountering environments that promise growth but often deliver stagnation or ethical compromise. Workers are increasingly portrayed as isolated within vast, impersonal structures where personal autonomy and work/life balance remain scarce. A growing disconnect appears between corporate priorities and worker values. While organizations emphasize shareholder value, workers seek meaning, stability, and dignity. Workplace design and digital technologies further reinforce control, shaping communication and enabling new forms of surveillance, now intensified by AI and the expectation of constant connectivity.

These recurring motifs, recycled jokes, familiar scenes from TV, and patterns emerging across online culture reveal what the workforce has never fully resolved: the gap between promise and reality, productivity and exhaustion, autonomy and surveillance. Yet within these systems, moments of resistance still surface in certain works. Characters step outside their roles or work with each other against corporate systems, suggesting that agency may only be found by stepping outside the logic that governs them.