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Speaking Chairs
2022-09-08T00:00:00+02:002022-08-18T00:00:00+02:0008/09/2022 - 18/08/2022Speaking Chairs is an investigation into the reallocation of the iconic church or prayer chair that has fallen into disuse. They systematically disappeared from churches, exchanged for more comfortable seats, or discarded in the wake of secularisation. They are stacked metres high in dark cellars, waiting for a second life. As silent witnesses of a rich past.
In the course of 2022, craftsmen and designers, students, local residents, artists and performers, young and old, known and unknown and with different cultural and religious backgrounds were given carte blanche to recreate a chair into a new object. From dignified restoration to radical transformation. Each church chair was thus given a new identity: a new story, a new function, a new name.
The transformed chairs are presented during an exhibition in Saint James' Church, where each one will preach its newly composed story. A hymn to the individual imagination. Amen!
EXPO 8-18 September
Thursday to Sunday 14-18h in St Jakob's Church.
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A project by Onbetaalbaar in co-operation with CAMPO, 019, Design Museum Gent
With the support of the Flemish Government
