"CHIEF CHAIR SHUFFLE"

120 x 45 x 55 cm, © 2019, prijs op aanvraag
Ruimtelijk | Installaties

'The Chief Church Chair'.

 

Here you see the Chief Church Chair and is special ordered by the artist, in response to the “Chief Chairs” which are specially made for tourists, thinking they are buying something "originally African", which originally function as an attribute of power, as a tribal symbol and for a westerner a piece of ethnic art.

 


What is originally, or specific, African tradition culture, is shifting, raising the question: who do you allow having a sit on your chair and change your direction? Also the Chief Chair might be a copy of a deckchair brought in by the first Missionaries from Europe, arriving in Africa, so the originality of the Chief Chair is doubted to be really African. Whereby in this case with the Chief Church Chair the originally of the Christian and other believes coming to Africa, taking over the original cult, cultures and believes, is discussed.