RC: Yes, you seem very angry and yet the people I have shown the work to have roared with laughter.
KB: This kind of rage is always entertaining when it’s directed at someone else. Also the joke is about how the managers think they are the winners. They are not. They are the victims too.
You asked ‘What will be the effect?’ Around the Western world, as senior managers see themselves in the mirror held up to them by this artwork, they will shrivel in shame or burn incandescent with an impotent rage proportional in intensity to the future freedoms and wonders that they have destroyed with their heedlessness. Others will stand around pointing and laughing.
Soon the subjects of the artwork will slump in their office chairs, collapse in their meetings and weep. Some part of them will expire, rot, wither. They had better hope that some part of them still retains a glimmer of humanity, otherwise they may snuff out completely.
Then they will start to laugh with their family, friends, and colleagues from the heart they forgot they had.