Barbara Iweins : katalog. (Paris : Delpire & co, 2022)
Barbara Iweins did not only photograph 12,795 objects, she also analyzed them. Using the performance of an Excel spreadsheet, she has established statistics on this shapeless mass, giving the story an absurd and irresistible logic with short sentences in the caption of some plates. Some succulent examples: “90% of gloves are lost within two weeks of purchase”, “The amount spent on all the objects in the house is estimated at 121,046 €”, “37% of the Playmobil in the house are bald” or “I have the weakness to believe that I am the only person in the world who knows that the dominant color in her house is blue (16%)”. From her neurotic collector’s tropism intertwined with an irrepressible need to put order in an intimate chaos, as she confesses, Barbara Iweins has created a monumental project as much in its form as in its outcome. Behind the lightness tinged with self-mockery of the Katalog project, a work of visual anthropology of our contemporary society takes shape. (english text from website of book)
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Keywords: Iweins, Barbara