To make a Chair

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

This project is part of
The kids are playing around the pool

Chairs from sketches

Sculptures of chairs based on sketches drawn by children. These "absurd" chairs try to address the fragile, non-biased, and infinite creativity of childhood. The chairs are conceived as aesthetic objects, in an effort to cast light on the design practices and object fetishism.

Drawn without any guidance and without any context rather than just “to draw a chair”.

My attempt is to create 3d real size models referring to the sketches as design objects with two purposes. First to narrate the story that is told by the child with this creation so the viewer can see the child in the chair and the infinite creativity that brinks, and the second purpose is to narrate the story of me as an artist/designer that came from creating for pleasure -as a child- to a complicated system and the struggles of figuring costs, aesthetics, advertising, purposes, networks and many more parameters in order to comply -or not- with the object fetishism that is dominating, influencing and maybe killing our creativity and shaping our design practises… Alongside the chairs that will be showed, with the original description by the children, I will create through the week one final chair which will be done based on a sketch made by a child visiting the exhibition.

By

Athanasios Paspaliaris

Hosted by

Isola
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