HANSA TRAVEL SUITCASE / HANSAreisiKOHVER

A suitcase is a highly necessary and practical thing for travelling. We put our personal belongings, clothes, underwear, toothbrushes and other necessary items in the suitcase. The contents of the suitcase used to be private or even intimate; they were not meant to be exposed to other people.

Nowadays, the significance of the suitcase has greatly changed; it is no-one’s private concern any more. When we travel, our suitcases are inspected and examined by all kinds of customs officials. Fellow travellers can catch a glimpse of our private lives through the x-ray monitors in airports. A suitcase is but a practical thing for transporting one’s items when travelling. Today, millions of people with millions of suitcases travel around the world every day and those millions of suitcases contain millions of different things.

If a suitcase has been packed by an artist, it is not an ordinary suitcase any more. An artist’s travel suitcase is something special; it is a work of art, an installation, a peculiarly interesting sight.