Rehberger highlights the boundary between art and non-art without, however, eliminating it. On the contrary, he preserves it, although his works refer directly to utilitarian objects from everyday life – in Infections, it is lamps – and thus address the question of the utilitarian value of art and the clichés about the non-functionality of a work of art.

Thus, the lamps in Infections were not created directly by the artist himself. They were produced as prototypes by others and then slightly reconstructed by Tobias Rehberger. In his own words, he toys with the notion of what constitutes a work of art.
‘Where does it come from, and where does it go? If you don’t embrace the romantic concept of the artist as genius, the important question for an artist to ask himself is, where do the works come from, and in what direction is their development taking them?’ (Tobias Rehberger)