4

One chair.

I made a deconstructive chair, but I didn't recycle used chairs. Instead, I planned to disassemble this chair before even making it. A normal boxy chair was divided into four pieces by four strips. In this project, I challenged the definition of 'a' chair. Is one chair necessarily to be one whole piece? 4 consists of four individual parts. They are together as a whole, but each one can work independently. You can sit on one, two, three or four, and the rest can act as a table, a coat, hanger or whatever users want them to be. In terms of colour, I was inspired by traditional Chinese wardrobe and liquor room divider. Black and red are the only colours I used - red covers the outer surfaces while the 'dividing surface' was painted in black, indicating the chair was once an entirety and then separated.

On the show

by Ling Qin

Jan. 2020 - Feb. 2020