Conceived within the frame, representing a well-explored subject of the Chair within art. ITS LINEAGE AND USE EXPLORED BY WIDELY WELL KNOWN ARTISTS FROM VAN GOGH’S yellow rustic chair as self portrait (1888) THROUGH TO MARINA Abramovic, THE ARTIST IS PRESENT, PERFORMANCE 2010 AND MONA HATOUM’S (REMAINS IV)
THE INSTALLATION IS BOTH A commentary on a CONSUMER DISMISSIVE SOCIETY, WHILST explorING traces of imagined sitters.
YOU CARRIED
SHELLS AND MOUNTAINS…Anita Bryan
CHAIRS & GRACES, A PEDESTRIAN COLLECTION, 2015
“One bunch of unscrupulous charlatans ripping off another bunch of credulous speculators. That’s a definition of capitalism, isn’t it?”
Chief Inspector Morse, Colin Dexter
Chairs & Graces
installation, found chairs, glass, photography, text
q park, london, 2015
Chairs & Graces evokes a litany of vivid imagery and discarded iconography. forms, which commonly punctuate our urban environment, Sight unseen in their familiarity. reconstituted through photographic installation.
abandoned chairs in this context begin to explore a neo post cubist conversation between the object, its purpose, image as debris and value, at the edges of lost and found.
From the wastrel hinterlands of familiar landscapes, these objects of dereliction BRACE UP in NEW sculptural reference.
leaning INTO THE SAFETY OF Art? reclaimed new pedestals, on which to GAZE. purpose WITH collision.
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