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The Waiting Chair 2016
Found Object The Waiting Chair refers to its use when the building was used as a pharmacy; the hundreds of people passing through every month, waiting, worrying, and wondering what the future may hold, yet now it stands alone, vacant, abandoned, forgotten. The empty chair has been used greatly within art from Van Gogh’s Chair to Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs and more recently in Ai Weiwei’s Fairytale. It portrays the absence of the subject but also the presence of the object while enhancing and reinforcing the emptiness and abandonment within this space. |