Early Adopters, 2017, installation
Within the work of Johann Arens, the central question is how certain public interiors produce social structures. Early Adopters takes a closer look at elements of the Action Office 2. This office furniture from the 1960s was the most influential design for the modern, so-called ‘office garden’ and symbolizes the straitjacket of office life. In the installation, tripods that seem to move out of the tight straitjacket playfully surround the uniform elements. The installation raises questions about the extent to which objects influence our way of doing things.
