Liang-Jung Chen explores vulnerability through 12 precarious egg racks
Eggs are hung from the ceiling, balanced on spinning tops and stacked on top of each other in a series of deliberately perilous contraptions created by industrial designer Liang-Jung Chen.
Entitled The Egg Rack Made a Disclaimer, the project was presented in an exhibition at Gallery Error22 in Tainan, Taiwan and prefaced by a warning to "interact with the egg racks at your own risk".
Top image: Rack #03 resembles a rocking chair frame. Above: Rack #05 is an acrylic chute that can hold 10 eggs. Photo is by Aco Hsu
The 12 egg holders resemble abstract sculptures ? rendered in timber, acrylic or metal ? but were designed to be set in motion to test the limits of their stability.
In this way, the exhibition acted as a kind of social experiment to gauge people's reactions to the vulnerability of the eggs and explore the different, often contradictory meanings that they can take on. "Eggs are sacred ? they are incubators of new life. So their fragility is a tool to demand proper attention and care from the parents," Chen told Dezeen.
Eggs are suspended vertically in Rack #10
"It seems strange how they have become industrialised and commodified. However the quality of the fragile shell stays the same, so we have designed ways to keep them safe, so we can eat them," she added.
"The egg came into existence as this perfect, clean form of hope. However, when accidentally broken, it becomes nasty, it smells bad and the liquid is tricky to clean. It is...
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