Saponem

Working as FOS, Thomas Poulsen has created works that occupy a position somewhere between art, design, and architecture. He is interested in function as well as aesthetics, uniting the two in objects that are both sculptures and objects of use. Here he has created “streetlamps” and a piece of plateau-wall-furniture for a relief executed in crystals. In a similar fashion the carefully crafted display case is as much part of the sculpture “Saponem” as the three wigs made from soap. He experiments with all kinds of materials, mingling soap and concrete with more conventional materials such as copper and wood. FOS is interested in transgressing the boundaries between familiar structures, e.g. between art and design, thereby pointing to new potential and, ultimately, to other ways of living and thinking.