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name: "Catalog: Barbara Iweins"
subtitle: "A photographic inventory of every single object in one woman's house"
date: 2026-05-20
link: https://katalog-barbaraiweins.com/
source: "Things Magazine"
topics: [design-and-art]
tags: [art, photography, inventory]
description: "Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins photographed and catalogued every object in her own house — over 10,000 items, sortable by color, room, or use."
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Barbara Iweins is a Belgian photographer who spent 4 years photographing and cataloguing every single object in her own house. The site presents the catalog as a sortable database — by color, by room, by use, by sentimental value — and the cumulative effect is a portrait by inventory. Echoes Georges Perec's *Tentative d'épuisement* but applied to a domestic space.