High tea pot

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• Ron asked

  Why is fur attached?

• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

  Dear Ron,
  
  The concept behind an object plays an important role for Studio Wieki Somers: everyday objects transform in their hands into extraordinary, aesthetic objects. They made a statement about their work, saying: ‘We ask ourselves what things are and what they could be. We observe ordinary situations and uses, we look at how people interact with things and what associations they have with them. We let our imagination run wild. Essentially, we make the ordinary extraordinary.’
  
  I believe Wieki Somers added fur to this tea pot to create something unusal and suprising, something that would startle people and make them look closely.
  
  I hope this answers your question.
  
  Kind regards,
  Kaja

• Victoria asked

  Is this work inspired by Hanna Arendt?

• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

  Hi Victoria, Thanks for your question. It certainly is possible, but unfortunately I do not know. I would be curious to know what makes you think that the tea pot could be inspired on Arendt's thinking. Kind regards, Els