Seven attempts to create suitable apparatus for ordinary families. Attempt no. 1. Many years ago, these roughly shaped contraptions with bandage-like components turned up in the settlement. They leaned against a gable end here and there and as their banda

The objects of Thomas Bang’s sculpture seem immediately recognizable: a table, a dress rail, a branch. Yet on closer examination something seems very wrong. The proportions are wrong, and strange excrescences and illogical elements emerge. This ambiguity is underlined by the long mysterious title, which speaks of the objects as equipment without defining their function. As in many of Bang’s titles we find references to the family and its psychological space. Bang has always worked with unorthodox materials in his sculptures, and he pays particular attention to the possible symbolic significance of pointed metal rods, woollen balls, gaze bandaged sticks and curtains that hide things– particularly to the disturbing feelings that such materials and objects may evoke.