Alastair Laas makes work that critiques extractivism and its implications in necrocapitalist culture. Working across sculpture, drawing, performance, and moving image, he exposes how industry aestheticises harm and engineers disposability. A fictional corporate world runs beneath the surface of his practice, providing an evolving mythology through which Laas explores a landscape of late capitalist absurdity.

These works, populated by strained mascots, fractured operatives, and exhausted employees, stage figures caught between survival and performance. These avatars serve as instruments of critique, mirroring the pressures placed on real bodies made fragile by systems that demand output without offering care.

Informed by his lived experience of commercial art making and chronic illness, Laas's work questions what remains of the human spirit in a world built to suppress it—and how we might interrupt cycles of consumption through memory and care. His practice seeks to unravel the aesthetics of dominance and reclaim emotional and physical autonomy from systems that commodify life, labour, and even mortality.