Viewing Chair
The Viewing Chair—both homespun and extravagant—serves as a performance platform for observing artworks while also becoming an object of observation itself.
Equipped with a record player and mini bar, it embodies the tension between public exposure and private contemplation, inviting reflection on taste, objectification, and the power of the gaze.
Its inspiration originates from the cover of an album by 1960s–70s “easy listening” bandleader Bert Kaempfert.
The album cover, which features a woman languidly posed in her hi-fi throne — a surreal fusion of domestic comfort and sci-fi glamour, of excess and intimacy.
The knobs on the Viewing Chair don’t turn, and the speakers emit no sound; they exist instead as playful, non-functional props—faux technological relics.
As both artefact and “painting accessory,” the chair is designed to evolve alongside future bodies of work.
Evoking notions of thrones, fantasy, and solitude, it transforms the act of viewing into a spectacle — diverting our gaze from the painting on show as it subtly redirects us back toward it.