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Artist: Michael Webster | Location: Spartanburg, SC

set it down right there

  • Medium

    3D printed PLA, Thonet #18 Chair

  • Dimensions

    36" x 28" x 28"

  • Sale Price

    $2,000

  • Venue

    Simpson Hardware & Sports

  • Voting ID

    244664

Artist Statement

As a tool, a level has a special relationship with gravity. It tells us if a painting is crooked or if a wall is leaning. It's a tool that organizes space through the Cartesian grid, a monument to human ambition and to our desire to make order of the world. This level is resting flaccid, hunched over, and exhausted on top of a classic piece of bentwood furniture. It can no longer fulfill its function, but becomes a futile object. The Thonet #18 chair was the first global piece of furniture, exported worldwide during 19th century imperialism. The level and chair represent two relics from the social structuring of space, trying to shape the world to match a Western culture imaginary. ìset it down right thereî highlights the relationship between these two iconic objects and questions the rigid presence of the level as a world-shaping tool.

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