Interview with Jens Laugesen about GENESIS in RE-EDITION magazine

GENESIS is a poetic visual analogy that merges the androgynous philosophical design ideas that lies behind Jens Laugesen’s hybrid design language, together with the avant-garde vision of art photographer Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen, filmmaker Valdemar Mørkeberg and the electronic / classical duo “Hellas”, consisting of Peter Sabroe and Jeppe Høj Justensen.

“Jens, when did you first discover that you wanted to be a designer? I’ve always been interested in drawing, science and photography, and read books by Karen Blixen and Kirkegaard when I was around 13. My initial plan was to study microbiology and to specialise in the ethics of genetics and cloning…

Read the full interview about GENESIS in Re-Edition magazine here. The article includes an interview with fashion designer and video artist Jens Laugesen where he speaks about his inspiration and the role of the film in his design process.