Employing themes of functionality and repetition, Michael Johansson subverts everyday objects into neatly packaged contemporary art.

Most of Johansson’s work pokes at the tension between what the artist calls the “now-familiar” and the “now-unknown,” finding a happy medium in an exaggerated form of regularity. Taking apart commonplace objects (suitcases, mattress springs, hairdryers), he both highlights and renders useless their original functions.

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