Each of these pieces is a Polaroid collage created from a photograph taken in the studio of a spare part, or parts, from a piece of IKEA furniture. The title of the body of work is a loose translation from Swedish of the company's original motto. Each work is titled with the name of the IKEA product, the part description, and how many times the image is magnified from life size.
This work is a continuation of my exploration/critique of the (in this case mass-produced) idea of the Modernist utopia and its infiltration into many aspects of our lives. These images also interrogate the indexicality of the photograph–since many of the Polaroids in these grids reproduce nothing but blank space, which could be a real three-dimensional space, or just an empty square.
LIXHULT foot 9 photos 6x life size, 10" x 11"
5 BILLY cam locks 9 photos 4x life size, 10" x 11"
HEMNES crescent nut 9 photos 5x life size, 10" x 11"
MALM wheel lock 9 photos 5x life size, 10" x 11"
HEMNES hinge 9 photos 3x life size, 10" x 11"
BILLY shelf pin 9 photos 10x life size, 10" x 11"
PAX shelf support 9 photos 10x life size, 10" x 11"
PAX rail support bracket 9 photos 3x life size, 10" x 11"
SEKTION wall mount bracket 9 photos 3x life size, 10" x 11"
KOMPLEMENT rod bracket 9 photos 3x life size ("Fountain"), 10" x 11"
SEKTION lock fitting 16 photos 9x life size, 13" x 14.25"
GALANT rod hoder 16 photos 5x life size 13" x 14.25"
VIGDA flip lock 16 photos 8x life size, 13" x 14.25"
diptych BESTA box corners 40 photos 5x life size, 28.5" x 17.75"
