office figures

Bärbel Praun

Weight 100 g
Dimensions 200 × 140 mm
printrun

print-run 150 copies, numbered

Cover

softcover

binding

staple bound

printing

digital printing

Format

200 x 140 mm

coverage

52 pages

additional authors

with a text by Jonas Georg Christensen

language

English

Publisher

self published

year

2022

Supplements

in collaboration with publishing platform txt and JIR SANDEL

35,00 

VAT exempted according to UStG §19
Delivery Time: 10 working days

Weight: 100g

In stock

When I moved into my studio in 2019 I was told that the building, probably from the 60ies in an industrial area of Hamburg and had once been a custom office, would be torn down soon to build a new living and shopping area. The room itself was small, squared and had a kind of platform at the two windows where I imagine the clerk sitting at their desk. The floor was a yellowish-brown linoleum and apart from that the room was empty when I moved in. In this dusty and frumpy atmosphere, I noticed little traces in the room, leftovers, stories from whom might have worked here. Scratches along the wall, probably from an office chair scrubbing. Holes from nails, at some places still screws in the wall. Crumbling plaster at the ceiling. This was the starting point of the series Office Figures. I started to fill the space with geometric shapes, stellar constellations, softened corners – and continued until I had to move out the following year. All materials used for these interventions in the room are discarded and found objects.