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Employer/Employee: 2010 exhibition view Front Desk Apparatus, NY By defining herself as an art employer, Lucie Fontaine avoids harnessing her practice to a specific figure of the art field, preferring to cultivate a modus operandi driven solely by her relationship with two employees, a concept of self-generated labor similar to the Master-Slave dialectic presented by Hegel is his master-piece, The Phenomenology of Spirit. This neon just formalizes this relationship and, at the same time, underlines that the word “Employer” differs from the word “Employee” in only one letter.