Salvatore Vitale

SABOTAGE
06.03 – 31.05.2026
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Salvatore Vitale presents an exploration of how the gig economy is reshaping labor and revealing the contradictions of digital capitalism.

Through film, photography and installation, he documents the everyday realities of people whose lives are increasingly governed by algorithmic control and explores a form of resistance.

His work with South African freelancers highlights both the vulnerability and resilience of digital workers, revealing that human labor – even when invisible – remains central to digital economies.

Exhibition

For the first time, SABOTAGE presents the entire Death by GPS project (2022–2026) through an immersive experience.

The exhibition unfolds as a journey, beginning with a corridor that evokes a corporate space, progressing through fragmented workspaces, and culminating in an e-waste scene. This transition mirrors the cycle of digital labor, from promise and productivity to exhaustion and disposal.

Through film, photography, archives, and both textile and graphical works, the exhibition explores the notion of sabotage as a form of resistance.

From tech giants to invisible labor, SABOTAGE exposes the hidden power structures shaping the digital economy.

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Salvatore Vitale

Salvatore Vitale (b. 1986) is an Italian artist who has lived and worked in Switzerland for the past two decades. His practice centers on structures of power and surveillance, and on how technology is shaping contemporary society. His project How to Secure a Country (2014–2019), an investigation into Switzerland’s security apparatus, was shown at Fotostiftung Schweiz (Winterthur) in 2019, with an accompanying book later released by Lars Müller Publishers. The work also earned Vitale a PhMuseum Photography Grant in 2017 and a place in the Foam Talent program in 2018.

Vitale, former the co-founder and editor-in-chief of YET magazine, won a Swiss Design Award in the research and design category in 2023. His work has been shown at prominent venues including Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation (Eschborn), CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (Turin), Foam (Amsterdam) and MAST (Bologna), as well as at the Fotofestiwal Łódź. SABOTAGE is his first exhibition in French-speaking Switzerland.

Vitale teaches at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), where he heads the Transmedia Storytelling program. He also serves as artistic director of the FUTURES European Photography Platform, and was formerly the artistic director of the EXPOSED Torino Foto festival.

Partners

The exhibition receives the generous support of the Federal Office of Culture and Loterie Romande.