Object Description
‘I think I am just trying to avoid painting human figures”. In other words, instead of painting human subjects, I have personified the chair. In a podcast last year, the host pointed out that perhaps the chairs in my paintings serve as an anchor to my lack of rootedness that stems from my constantly moving from country to country as a child.
I have essentially replaced the human subject with an inanimate object. To an extent it reflects my somewhat distant and avoidant relationship to people – I am more comfortable painting a chair than a human face, and I have transferred a lot of human emotional value onto these nonhuman objects.’ Wei Tan
2024
Oil on Canvas
39 2/5 × 31 1/2 in | 100 × 80 cm
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