Social Benches by Jeppe Hein

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将普通长椅做不同程度的形式改变，放在不同的公共空间中。人们将努力调整姿态才能坐在这些椅子上，这些姿态的改变引发人们用新的眼光看世界和与旁边的人们交流。椅子不再是普通的物件，功能也发生变化。艺术由此产生。

Out of investigating architecture, communication, and social behaviour in theurban space, a series of bench designs was born under the common title ModifiedSocial Benches. The bench designs borrow their basic form from normal park orgarden benches seen everywhere, but are altered in various degrees to make theact of sitting on them a conscious physical endeavour. With their modification,the spaces they inhabit become active rather than places of rest and solitude;they foster exchange between the users and the passers-by, thus lending thework a social quality. Due to their alteration, the benches end up somewherebetween a dysfunctional object and a functional piece of furniture and thuspoint out the contradiction between artwork and functional object.

Courtesy: Johann König, Berlin and 303 Gallery, New York
Photos by T. Kaare Smith, Julia Baier, Henrik Edelbo, Florian Lüdde, Pirje Mykkänen,
Christian Mosar, Stephan Brimberg and Christian Schmidt (in order of appearance)

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