Junk Drawers of People I Know

2024 | Wood, Varnish | variable dimensions

Junk Drawers of People I Know consist of a series of five wooden puzzles inspired by the 16 Animali puzzle by the Italian artist Enzo Mari. For this project, Beckers asked some of his friends if he could take a look into their junk drawers. Based on the objects he found there, he made puzzles, where each carelessly left object has suddenly been given a fixed and determined place.
The puzzles are based on the idea that we are most ourselves in an unguarded moment. The moment when we are least tidy.
Together with Tell Me What Your Favorite Shape Of Pasta Is And I Will Tell You Who You Are, the puzzles form a research into whether we can use trivial elements and banal information to find out something about a person's identity. They are proposals of alternative, yet flawed ways to define ourselves and the world that surrounds us.

Special thanks to Jamie Rocklage