Thursday, July 20, 2023

12,795 photos of 12,795 objects

Objects from Iweins’ bathroom

It took Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins four years to take pictures of every single object in her home - all 12,795 of them! Safety pins, clingfilm, screws, hooks, toilet rolls, hangers, keys, socks, pants and plates! She realised she could live without 99% of them.
Her most treasured belonging is a dahlia (below), at once delicate and invulnerable, preserved in a jar of formalin. She is drawn to its permanence.

Dahlia preserved in formalin

Her work has been published as a book called Katalog.

Read more: The Guardian

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous11:03 am

    After 4 years some of those things will have been used up.
    xoxoxoBruce

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