During a trip through United States, Catherina Cramer (b. 1988) discovered one of the storage facilities that have been installed in the suburbs of large cities since the 1960s to store a wide variety of objects. Contrary to their original purpose, these rentable units are increasingly used as living and working spaces. In her video, the artist depicts the lives of fictional communities inhabiting such a facility, people who seal themselves off from the contaminated outside world in claustrophobic spaces and test alternative models of living together. She examines the status of the body in an everyday life dominated by new technologies and digital media and presents the video in an accessible container made of corrugated iron.

A Boxed Rebellion was created in 2019 as a final project at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art and was selected and acquired by the Stiftung Junge Kunst in the spring of 2020 from the graduate exhibition Coming to Voice at K21.