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BOGART

Bogart

Diemut in collaboration with Artist Stefan Strauss

Vortex Machine

L 420 x W 480 x H 570 mm

positioned on pedestal

L 420 x W 480 x H 620 mm

2026

View #1 / Video

Bogart is an artificial smoker, a hilarious ludicrous machine made of motors, a glass lung,

tubings, a repurposed e-cigarette and a rudimentary silicone mouth mask etc. to create smoke rings.

Not so long ago smoking was a widely common habit of vast majorities in most societies. It even appealed to be a premise of “cool” in the public appreciation. Within a short period, all this completely turned into the entirely stigmatized activity of social outcasts, the pitied mannerism of the lower class.

Bogart in this concern is not only a remembrance of the simple fact, how narratives shape the social and physical world, but moreover the resurrection of smoke’s beauty, the ephemeral elegance of mouth -made vortices as perfect smoke rings as well as generating the vast spectrum of random smoke patterns.