In her early video works, she wore attire appropriate to the business worlds, enacting often-ironic scenarios which examine and question its power to shape society and individual identity.
In 2005, she showed 'Consideration', a series of works exploring the connections between contract law and performance art at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York as part of the PERFORMA05 Biennial.
The artist examines law as a conceptual and abstract space in which power, rights, and authority are played out through varying forms of performance and language.
"[17] Her 2017 video installation Palais de Justice,[18] at Paula Cooper Gallery was described by critic Jeffrey Kastner as: “quietly stunning … vividly proposes a juridical world as it might otherwise be, a form of the Law that may someday be possible.”[19] Johanna Fateman, Artforum, described the work as: "a transfixing (...) speculative fiction", a "tantalising (...) novel mockup of a post-patriarchal legal system.
"[20] Laura Cumming, of The Observer, said "Young’s profound and involving examination of the law has continued through film, photography and installation art for more than 20 years.