Draussen Dehors Outside
Picking up the plastic bags is, in a way, like picking mushrooms in the forest: While walking through the urban jungle, Hahn focuses his attention on the more inconspicuous details and discovers a rich world of shapes and colors. The plastic bags thus reveal a microcosm that we barely notice, even though it unfolds right before our eyes.
Title: Draussen Dehors Outside
Year: 2015
Format: 32 × 21.3 cm
Text: Catherine Malabou, Christian Hackenberger
Language: German, English, French
Design: Krispin Heé
ISBN: 978-3-909090-69-3
Published by Vexer Verlag
Article/Review
“I've always considered bags a contemporary species. The possibilities of low-cost, mass production and the way materials are handled mean that plastic bags are scattered throughout the landscape. And ultimately, through deformation, they transform, convey history, and take on an organic appearance.” In conversation with Phillip Meene: Beauty of the discarted. In: strassenfeger, Mar. 2018.