Family Get-together, 1992

Family Gathering was initially based on the idea of taking a pictogram designed by a group of Danish architects and placing it in public space. The family, consisting of two adults, two children, and a dog, is presented as the ideal family. It mingles among the pedestrians in a public space: equal in status — 1.80 metres (5-foot-8-inches) tall, but stylistically simplified and painted in a single colour.

In Rüsselsheim, the city of cars that is home to a great many people of various origins, it places everyone on the same level. Family Gathering projects a kind of life that is to be found everywhere in the town. It reduces it to a basic principle without making any value judgment.