The examination of work is a central theme of the artist Katharina Gruzei. In the series Bodies of Work she deals with Austria's last Danube shipyard. There, high-tech machine production and industrial manual labour are closely intertwined. Man and machine prove to be perfectly attuned to each other in the industrial creative process. Gruzei sees the "worker's body" in this context as a "place of negotiation for the always current discourses on the status and change of work."

Over a period of one and a half years, she accompanied the Linz-based company with her camera and created a comprehensive series whose photographic findings go far beyond a documentary approach. In her pictures, Gruzei transforms the found working world into scenarios that sometimes seem weightless or are reminiscent of science fiction, thus allowing the proximity to the aesthetics of space travel to shine through. She provides an insight into the construction of a large ferry and also focuses her camera on areas away from work. Gruzei shows how the operational infrastructure is used and shaped by the employees and picks up on the company's long operational history, which manifests itself visually on the premises. Outside working hours, when darkness falls over the company premises and the noise of the machines fades away, the motifs appear in a different light. In Gruzei's photo series, seemingly alien scenarios expand the represented section of reality with new references to time and space.