Back when we in the West couldn’t conceive the staggering impact of a new coronavirus, Max Siedentopf courted controversy with his series How To Survive A Deadly Global Virus; little did we know how foreboding it would be. Using his subsequent time in self-isolation constructively, the irreverent Namibian-German artist and photographer has scoured his home looking for everyday objects in the process of creating his very own Home Alone Survival Guide.
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Be it piling cans into sculptural towers; stitching together haute-couture clothes; seeking alternatives to toilet paper; or crafting monsters and traps … the ‘not-to-be-taken-seriously-at-all survival guide’ sheds an ironic light upon the process of getting by at home throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Currently available as an e-book and due to be published by Hatje Cantz in May, the guide also features pictures from some of Siedentopf’s Instagram followers; having published his own actions on the network whilst inviting others to interpret his efforts in their own individual ways.
Whether Siedentopf is ‘inventing a new meal’, ‘making a painting using toothbrush’ or using egg boxes to craft your very own Louis Vuitton hangbag, the artist’s excellent tongue-in-cheek publication not only staved off the boredom for those included in it, but is sure to entertain those who read it for a few hours of their own lockdown, too. A welcome flash of flippant fun in deeply strange times.
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Home Alone Survival Guide © Max Siedentopf.