Hannah Zimmerman
What Are We Doing To Each Other?
2016
Leather chairs, moss, plant pot liner, monitor, mp4 video (5:02)
This piece is observing two chairs, each representing an individual, and creating a discussion about what history these two chairs have with one another. The green moss chair is watching a video, on loop, of the other chair tipping backwards and standing back up again. Each chair's leather is being overcome with the skin that grows beneath. Questions begin to arise when the viewer notices the moss chair, green and alive, watching the chair with dead, hay-like material bursting from underneath it's leather. Is the moss chair causing the other chair to come apart and reveal a decaying interior, while it comes apart and is more alive than ever before? What is the relationship between these two chairs and what are they doing to one another? Why is the moss chair only watching?
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