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Artist Statement

We have been working collaboratively since 2002 across the fields of installation, object based sculpture and art in public space; in the last years the focus of our artistic work has mostly revolved around the broad concept of everyday objects and the language of things.
Frequently making use of humour and irony, we approach in equal measure matters of import ance or banality in society. Our dialogue and playful investigations lead to the materialization of simple interventions, small objects and new inventions, using materials ranging from kitchen objects and cheap veneer to business coaching workshops and police promotional videos.

In the realisation of our projects, we generally begin with a haphazard visual and theoretical research, which we call the “crazy-sociologist” method; we carefully study the context in which we are working, but at a certain point our procedure becomes absolutely non-scientific. Through this research, and a process of dialogue, it becomes clear what the main interests and possible aims of the work are (if there are any at all).

A central stage in our work with everyday objects consists of experimentation; we analyse them starting with the simplest criteria such as shape, colour, size, and systematically progressing to more complex issues. We search for new materials, find or purchase items to work with, rearrange and modify. Turning an element from the everyday upside down interests us; you suddenly start seeing it differently, and new meanings are created.

In particular the relationship between objects or artefacts is interesting for us; we combine them as significant entities to build object-phrases. It is difficult to predict what will emerge from this combination work, or to deduce a systematic logic in these experiments. And just as Lautréamont did, we might suddenly find the answer in the “chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella”