#2: Three in One

This piece is titled "Three in One". It draws inspiration from a well-known work in art history. Specifically, Kosuth's “One and Three Chairs”. What fascinates me is that Kosuth took an everyday object, and deconstructs it into language, imagery and a tangible object. It then becomes eligible to be placed in a museum. Thus it transforms into an artwork. This time I adopted a functionalist approach, I merged them back together, reuniting them into one piece, into one chair. To me, this completes my act of revenge, cause contemporary art has stolen too much from everyday life, I want to reclaim it.

It’s easy for us to see that when an object is functional, we simply use it as an everyday item. However, once its function is stripped away, it can be turned into an artwork. But here’s the interesting part: If we going to see every museum now, it has a gift shop. It feels like every artwork gains a new function, it becomes usable again.

This time, I aimed to follow another type of functionalism, which is a more essential one. Instead of merely adding a function to an object, I focused on merging three elements into one, in a highly efficient way. This kind of functionalism use this way to merging of imagery, language and the physical object, embodies the essence of functionalism for me.

This is where I have swum up to my potential, I’ve thought it through thoroughly. Beyond being foldable, this handle at the back is designed to be truly functional. It can really be lifted and used, please take a close look.