Empty Chair Series
By Lexi Strauss
2011 - 2014
(left to right)
Manufactory of Echoes (baby chair injection mood) 29 x 21 cm, acrylic on paper.
Manufactory of Echoes II, 21 x 29 cm, acrylic on paper.
Belonging, 29 x 21 cm, acrylic on paper.
Safety Chair, 29 x 21 cm, acrylic on paper.
As the chair was once a domestic luxury, the metaphorical ‘empty chair’ is seldom found in folklore, making empty chair imagery peculiar to the depiction of the human condition in a post-industrial society. The chairs represent people held back by various belief systems that sustain a sense of alienation in society.
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