Childhood chair
A chair filled with toys under a dark mesh turns childhood joy into a metaphor of memory: warmth and softness coexist with tension and weight.
materials
Soviet chair, toys, belts, nails, protective net
“Childhood Chair” is a return to personal memory and a rethinking of lived experience.
Bright, soft toys — symbols of joy and warmth — are trapped under a dark mesh. Sitting in the chair means pressing them down with one’s own weight, just as we compress and layer our memories into the foundation of the self.
A Soviet-era chair from my mother’s summer house becomes a vessel of time: it preserves my childhood fascination while revealing the loneliness, tension, and harshness of growing up.
The work reflects the duality of memory: comfort and safety coexist with constraint and pressure, while the longing to return collides with the impossibility of reliving the past. It is a visualization of the fragile balance where identity is formed.
