GORD PETERAN’S “ARK”

LBMA sends us an advance look into Gord Peteran’s upcoming exhibit “Furniture Meets Its Maker”:

It is furniture unlike any other. A table that doesn’t hold objects, chairs not made for sitting, objects that appear to function as torture devices or for the sexually experimental. Despite the dubious functionality of many of the pieces in the exhibition, one can recognize, using Peteran’s word, the “furnitural” quality of the object. The accompanying exhibition catalog expresses it this way, “at Peteran’s hands furniture dies a fascinating death, without ever quite going away.”

The piece above is titled “Ark.” It’s apparently equal parts confessional and electric chair. Sex and death indeed.

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