phedre barbas
 phedre barbas

The un-
standard
-izer



Visual manifesto



April 2022

Project made under the supervision of  Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes


Photographic series









A production standard is liberating in many aspects. From simple universal elemets, an infinity of objects can be created,  resulting ultimately in a time and economic gain.
However, this way of producing is also creating a universal, normalized aesthetic, and slowly but certainly erases everyone’s special features, habits particularities, until the point where it changes the character of each person. What would objects be if they were completely individualized, if their owners were the norm chosen to define a whole new range of function ?