Chairacters

Farhan carves chairs from wood, but his chairs do not stand on the floor. They are mounted on the wall, climbing it in clusters, leaning on one another, hauling each other up. The carving emphasises the chairs' "muscles", long curving energy lines that read as limbs and tendons, so that the arrangement looks less like furniture than like bodies in a slow act of mutual rescue. A chair is built for rest, but these never rest. They stay suspended only because each one is held by the next, in a configuration that is precarious by design and stable only through collaboration. Take one chair out and the rest come down. Farhan uses the most ordinary object in a household to make a sculptural argument about community: that staying upright, here, has rarely been a matter of standing alone.