Seeking comfort in a German chair (Bani Abidi)
Abidi makes comic attempts in trying to seek comfort in various chairs... the chairs in these photographs chairs by designers associated in varying degrees with the Nazis...
“In the photographs, Abidi makes comic attempts in trying to seek comfort in various chairs. Only that the chairs in these photographs have a different connotation: they are chairs by designers associated in varying degrees with the Nazis: Egon Eiermann, Walter Knoll, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Ernst Moeckl. In addition to the topical nature of the gesture, the photographs also raise questions about early 20th-century architecture and design and its relationship with eugenics.” (India Art Fair)
Seeking comfort in a German chair (Walter Knoll), Bani Abidi, 2024, photography and archival print on paper, 51 1/8 x 41 3/8 inches (130 x 105 cm)
Seeking comfort in a German chair (Mies van der Rohe), Bani Abidi, 2024, photography and archival print on paper, 51 1/8 x 41 3/8 inches (130 x 105 cm)
Seeking comfort in a German chair (Mies van der Rohe), Bani Abidi, 2024, photography and archival print on paper, 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (52 x 42 cm)
Seeking comfort in a German chair (Egon Eiermann), Bani Abidi, 2024, photography and archival print on paper, 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (52 x 42 cm)
Abidi, born 1971, is a Pakistani artist who works with video, photography, and drawing. She has lived in Pakistan and India, and studied in Lahore, Chicago, and Berlin. She now resides in Berlin. (Interview with Abidi)
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