Video: Dead chairs are dead people. Photo series "Body U.S.A." by Karen Ryan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Not only people in particular and Humanity in general have their own history, but also the things that surround them. For example, with ordinary chairs. After all, their existence is directly related to people. And each of them has a story to tell. These are the chairs we are talking about in a new photo project from Karen Ryancalled "Body U. S. A."
Artist Karen Ryan is apparently very attracted to trash and old things. Rather, not they themselves, but the stories that are hidden behind them, the aesthetics of fading and deconstruction that they carry in themselves. We have already talked about her art project, in which she collected old porcelain and gave it new life. Now we will talk about old furniture, and more specifically, about chairs.
Karen Ryan argues that, in her understanding, a chair is inextricably linked with the person who sits on it. After all, its very existence is connected precisely with the need to maintain the human body. Without a man, there is no chair. And the death of a person often brings with it the “death” of the chair.
Therefore, Ryan believes that a broken, "dead" chair is a great symbol, a metaphor for the dying USA. This idea of hers is revealed through a series of photographs titled "Body U. S. A."
Each of these photographs depicts a broken chair, the fragments of which are piled up in the shape of a human body. This chair lies in the posture of a dead person in those places where the death of people could well have occurred or in which there is a hint of the withering of the United States. These are depressed areas of cities, abandoned industrial zones, once residential, but now empty houses, rusting cars that have not moved from their place for decades.
Yes, Karen Ryan is a fading singer for whom deconstruction is far more interesting than construction itself. But at the same time, the artist, with the help of her works, gives new life to objects that, without her intervention, would have “died” long ago, ceased to exist.
Karen Ryan's exhibition "Body U. S. A." will take place from April 7 to 10 this year in Dallas and from April 28 to May 2 in Chicago.
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