The Chairs

Giving life to an object, finding its personality traits, highlighting what makes it definable. We constantly project the image of an object on us to feel elegant, soberly or playful. In short, to be in the same way that object is. My project takes the chairs and transforms them into people, showing my vision about each of them. This project started when I had to document an upholstery shop and to take a portrait with the owner of that place. The portrait was awful but an idea was born after seeing a white chair with a broken arm. What if this chair were a woman? What age would she have or how old would she be? I photographed each chair, I made prints and began to write down the kind of person they inspired me. It felt like I was creating a character for a movie and this process was what I enjoyed most in constructing this series. For each chair, I tried to exploit the story that was already there and to make a balance between aesthetic and narrative.