Maria Kunigk

In my series Let’s Sit and Think About It, I dismantled chairs and reconfigured their parts into new arrangements. By moving away from the chair as an individual seat, I want to bring its communal associations into focus: its relationship to gathering, shared space, and of being together or apart.

 That's what the whole project is about and it is not about the things themselves but what emerges from them, between them and between them and us. Between one piece and another, between what is seen and what is felt. 10 pieces in different configurations of relation. A constellation rather than a sequence.

The idea of a chair also becomes a metaphor for the unseen labor that forms, bodies, and communities: small, hidden parts whose value is often overlooked, yet whose necessity is undeniable. By exposing these layers, I understand how identity is never centered in a single point, but distributed across multiple presences, connections, repetition, and a constant unstable transformation.