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Objet Trouvé

Erik Tonning Jensen

Objet trouve contains a rewriting of a (initially) 1:1 domestic object; a chair. The chair (in itself) contains different bodily proportioned components, some legs, a seat and a back. In a semantic manner the chair explains the act of sitting, while the morphology of the chair is more of an abstract condition. In objet trouve a found chair is cut into pieces for new elements to occur, not referring to its former function.

In the process of reassembling it, new static relations happen as pieces are displaced, and elements are introduced to re-establish static logic. The object maintains a relationship to its former function (miming it), but the new condition of wood and metal describes the object per se, as a spatial figure.

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