office figures

Bärbel Praun

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

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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.