Studio Johanna Seelemann
Studio Johanna Seelemann

Design studio exploring the mystification of everyday objects and materials in our environment, and their contexts.

The studio works on a wide range of typologies, from designed products to research-driven installations.


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2016    —    Cargo



Cargo is an installation that aims to revisit our perspective on everyday goods. It is an exploration, focused on the complex system of transported materials and objects around the globe, which essentially enable our living standards.

The idea of the project is for objects to become the collected traces of the shipping system, through which they’re going in between production and consumption, from an Icelandic viewpoint.

The pieces are designed to be the carriers of their own story, revealing the journey of two representatives of the Icelandic economy: aluminium and fish, across borders and continents to their destination. At the same time, they objectify the complex mechanisms of consumerism.

The project consists of a short movie, unveiling the industrial aesthetics of the shipping industry, and a collection of four artifacts made from cod leather, aluminium oxide, and aluminium, as well as the illustrated journey of a regular aluminium can from it’s mining in Brazil via smelting in Iceland to the Netherlands, processing in Germany and Great Britain, back to the Icelandic supermarket.
The project is a collaboration with Björn Steinar Blumenstein.

Concept, Design

Johanna Seelemann and Björn Steinar Blumenstein

Special Thanks to

Garðar Eyjólfsson, Thomas Pausz

Context

Iceland Academy of the Arts, 201




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Johanna Seelemann

Leipzig (DE) — Reykjavík (IS)
Hauptstrasse IX
DE-04416 Markkleeberg
 
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