fallen chairs.
During the Chair Project, I have learned new ways of working and progresses to advance my projects moving forward. From the initial brief, I examined the concept of a folding camping chair, the idea of functionality and the ability to transport the structured and stable object of a chair. Transferring this idea onto more conventional wooden chairs I began compressing my chair into a foldable state. I developed themes of a more comical nature, displaying the chair as a sellable product however landed more specifically on the concept of fragility and temporary stability.
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I used primarily the materials from the chair itself with the addition of metal hinges. Artist research prompted me to highlight the already expressive way in which mundane objects can be presented, which would have otherwise been stationary. Additionally, the concept that a chair could lose the fundamental characteristic and stability to sit on safely, creates a different tone or connotation to an object especially designed to be functional. Using video work, I was able to demonstrate the dramatic yet simplistic act of the chair collapsing. Playing with speed and editing techniques to portray an injury, loss of control or even death provided interesting connotations of giving up, finality and impermanence.
During my exhibition installation I emphasised these characteristics by commemorating where each chair has fallen with silhouetted tape dotted around the space. This further defamiliarization highlighted the now unrecognisable construction and formation of the chair, which prompted me to create another foldable chair with a more extreme, unfunctional and strange appearance.
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