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Like Beuys, Franz Erhard Walther adminsters the look of functional objects: well designed packages, exemplifying - stand in for - its protestant ethic, morality. Packages as stripped minimalist looks meant, through fetishistic “functional” design of today’s REI or Muji, to impress functionality as a nebulous holisticness. Functionality is today’s fetish in a world already post-apocalyptically Capitalist dog-eat-dog. So when you stand with your head in a bag with a stranger or docent, say in the middle of a large open floor of Weils, the bitterness of its awkwardness is understood as medicinal, good for you.
