South American Triangle

Mediums: steel, iron.
Location: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (the USA).

In the first series of political sculptures named “hanging chair”, a chair associatively involved in torture (interrogations, executions) becomes a victim. The viewer is disoriented in familiar terms: who will torment the chair by hanging it? The author himself commented, “I thought about using a chair that somehow became a living figure.”Like other hanging sculptures, the design of this work is aimed at criticizing the totalitarian regimes that were established in South America and South Africa. Also, according to the author, this conceptual solution relates to the fundamental structure of life. For example, it is associated with the nucleus and membrane of the cell, with the atom and the electrons surrounding it.