Shelf Portraits – Culture Corporation

Design: Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. (Culture Corporation)
Intervention: Fabrikken for Kunst og design. Factory for art and design. Copenhagen.

Ten people were invited to give a selection of objects from their lofts or cellars storage, in exchange for a nominal payment, of about £15. The objects were to fit a shelf 1 meter long, 28 cm high and 15 cm in depth.
These objects were wrapped together with and onto the shelf, creating a shelf as a new object. The form is predicted by the person, the object becomes a portrait of the person.

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• _{Material: Unneeded Belongings, Polythene, ash.}
• _{Production / Technique: Wrapping}
• _{Dimensions: 1 meter}
• _{Dissemination:}
  • _{Trapholt, 2004: ‘Shelf portraits’. Culture Corporation. Biennalen for Craft and Design. Kolding}
  • _{Nordjyllands Art Museum, 2005: ‘Shelf portraits’. Culture Corporation. Biennalen for Craft and Design. Aalborg.}
• _{Relating Projects: Culture Shrink, Culture Corporation.}