Alicja Kwade's installation Geologies of the Impossible features three bronze chairs obstructed by raw stone at Belvedere Tragara, Capri. The chairs are part of her Carrier and Double Carrier series, representing a disruption of usability and purpose. This intervention highlights a tension between geological elements and crafted objects, prompting a reflection on perception versus reality. The sculptures engage with the surrounding landscape, evoking a dialogue between the natural and the manufactured, emphasizing a mental suspension rather than traditional forms of rest.
A chair, designed to receive the human body, becomes the bearer of a weight not its own. Nature intrudes upon culture.
Kwade places stone and chair in direct confrontation - mass against function, time against intention.
Geologies of the Impossible thus becomes a reflection on the limits of inhabiting: not just places, but ideas.
The sculptures do not passively inhabit space - they alter its meaning. They do not invite us to sit, but to think.
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