Jurgen Bey
Jurgen Bey (1965) is driven by the ambition to understand the world. He is able
to question it in a unique manner. According to him, wanting
to think or create something new is bizarre, for every thing
or solution we can possibly
dream of does already exist in the world around us. It is just
a question of recognizing it and then of being able to translate
it into something
people want to use. Therefore, Bey is continuously busy analyzing
the real qualities and hidden values of phenomena and things
around us. He even
analyses phenomena like dust or waiting, that no-one else is
interested in but which could be of huge value - as soon
as we understand how to use
it.
Being deeply interested in the emotional meaning of things,
Bey creates new images and works that provoke thinking and
discussions about the value of the contemporary production
machine. Besides its plain
functionality his conceptual work is part of the international
discussion around the role of design and the designer.
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