Ikea Chair

2015 painted wood, metal

Installation, Cinque Mostre Exhbition, American Academy in Rome, Italy.  

From Exhibition Catalog: A simple mass-produced chair is systematically reduced and disintegrated. Each line is made up of one chair cut up into increasingly numerous pieces. Ikea Chair is part of the Disintegrations series, a body of works that capture the essence of the process of transformation and gradual disintegration of matter. A banal everyday object enters the deterioration cycle of mass consumption items, passing through time, the cyclical nature of history and economy, the inevitability of deterioration, in which each object loses its recognizability and goes back to being plain matter. The process of destruction and reconstruction of an object, involving different combinations of the atoms it is made of, was considered part of the alchemical process associated with materials. Furthermore, the pyramidal formalization of the triangle that connects one’s antipodes, microcosm and macrocosm, alludes in alchemical philosophy to two of the four elements, i.e. Fire, when depicted with its vertex facing upwards, and Water, when facing downwards.