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For this magazine shoot about household products, Illenberger got to raid a department store and use anything she found there to sculpt a series of abstract Duchampian robots. Two toasters, three Kitchenaids, a coffeemaker, a pair of tongs. "I like surprises," she says. "When people are so used to one thing and it suddenly changes completely. In German you say entfremden, which is something strange, taken out of its normal ordinary context."