A sculpture made of Pringles. What more do I need to say? I went to Japan House London recently to check it out, and I found this really cool architectural exhibition there by Sou Fujimoto. Around the entrance to the building are a sequence of small sculptures on stands, made from various household and everyday items.
Sponges, Pringles, toilet roll tubes - things like that. There's something really charming about the forms themselves and the little people sitting and standing around them, but what I really like is the humour. It's funny, silly, clever, and somehow quite emotionally dense with all of this.
It has a great sense of playfulness in constructing these perfect little forms, and through the tongue-in-cheek captions and the warping of objects we see perhaps daily, it poses an intriguing look at architecture and how we position it in our minds. It gives us the glee of these bizarre, seemingly spontaneous forms. There's an unpredictableness and humour where you might expect a rigid, considered, business-like outlook.
It's so great.
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