SZII
Proposal for TAF - Tbilisi Art Fair
2024
NS PRODUCT
Materials: Metal
Dimensions:
235cm x 90cm x 75cm
In Georgian culture, cemeteries are not just burial sites — they are living spaces. Families visit regularly, bring flowers, maintain graves, commission stone portraits and sculptures, and most importantly, they sit. Staying, talking to the dead, gathering with the living — it is how we keep connection across the threshold. Seating is not incidental to this ritual; it is central to it.
Photography by Grigory Sokolinsky
This project began by closely examining the chairs in Tbilisi cemeteries. None of them was designed by a designer. None of them was ergonomic, standardised, or formally considered. The research itself became an archive of chairs, none repeating, each one a decision made by someone who needed something to last. And yet each carried its own logic — shaped by whoever placed it there, in response to a very specific set of needs: the chair has to withstand time, it has to be easy to bring in, it has to fit within — or sometimes mark — a particular grave site so that family can find their spot from a distance.
SZ II is a replica of one of the chairs found during the research
Photography by Grigory Sokolinsky