What Could be a Chair?
2021
Ceramics, Sound installation, Video, Poem
Originally, people were symbiotic with bonfires and rivers, and they gradually changed from the long-term life of collecting and fishing to the economic life dominated by agriculture. While growing grain and domesticating livestock, they began to understand how to make pottery with clay. Because of the emergence of pottery, people chose to settle down in a stable life, which may be their chairs. Through moving image and porcelain, I made chairs into the shape of animals and added different legs and tails to them.
Every year, my grandma's house is eroded by the flood, the walls of the small house that keeps close relationship with the river still have traces left by the beating of the fierce water, and these traditional furniture all show their own unique properties. With the advent of urbanization, people gradually no longer live in public space in the form of agglomeration, and the relationship between family members is limited to marriage and blood relationship.
However, in the public sphere of the city, many unique and assembled chairs appear. When people sit together to play mahjong and gossip, these creative chairs can be used for rich short-term activities, forming a unique "home". In this project, some natural and public chairs are put back into the private domain. Maybe grandma's small room can be used as an art museum, which is non-authoritative and boundless. During the process, I thought over and over again what is a chair? Perhaps the answer can be found when you give it the unique characteristics it has.