NADA Curated: Reduction to Satire (Reductio ad Satura)

The series OC10KMCPH is based on upholstery fabrics from office chairs collected from private homes around Copenhagen. The upholstery is dismantled and seamlessly sewn into the canvas, creating a flat surface, and appearing as minimalist color field paintings empty of narrative pictorial content. The traces of wear and tear adds a new form of subjectivity that points to the former owner of the chair, and the transformation of these mass-produced objects raises questions about how subjectivity is formatted in a culture of prefabricated solutions and products. OC10KMCPH has a satirical dimension that questions (and mildly ridicules) some key myths of modernism, and at the same time a very concrete element of reduction turning a 3D object into a pictorial state, pointing to entropy and consumption.