History and historiography are inherently subjective as they are made, told and retold by individual people who have selective memory and can undermine or twist the perception of truth and reality at will. What we can be sure of, however, is that mistakes are continuously made when reconstructing the past, because the information available (and its limits or drawbacks) demands degrees of interpretation and speculation, not to mention bias. IKEA-Vase is an amphora-shaped vase made of restoration paste incorporating the fragments of an IKEA mug. Because of the unimaginable amount of IKEA products that are spread over the globe, and the proved fact that ceramics tend to withstand the passing of time rather well, there are bound to be material leftovers of these mass-produced consumer goods in future geological strata. The work questions the ability of historical artefacts to give an accurate impression of what life in an inherently unknowable past would have been like. Through this process it points out the hypothetically fallacious impressions a future archaeologist might conceivably formulate about our present, based on its surviving remnants.
