3 x chairs, recycled timber, 750 h x 50 w x 50 d cm each.

structure, interior

Structure, Interior is a sculptural and spatial project on the relationship between quadrilateral forms, human interaction, and Cartesian space. The work, comprising three timber chairs with minimal 2.5mm square frames takes form, perspective, and the activation of objects within architectural environments as its operational form.

The essential element of the work is the grid-like structures that define Cartesian spatiality, the systematic ordering of reality into measurable, rational quadrilaterals. The timber chairs, with their stark rectilinear forms, embody this rationality, presenting a minimal yet deliberate design that reduces the chair to its structural essence. Their frames generate a series of intersecting squares and rectangles that reflect the human body in a state of rest. Yet, these forms are not merely functional but provoke reflection on the abstraction of space into lines, angles, and volumes—a gesture that recalls Descartes’ privileging of reason and geometric order in the comprehension of physical reality.

The project’s engagement with quadrilateral forms, however, extends beyond their static aesthetic. When installed, the chairs' sculptural arrangement generates an lattice of intersecting shapes and perspectives that mediate movement through the space.

This dynamic interaction challenges Cartesian rigidity by foregrounding the variability of perception, implicating the viewer as an agent in the work’s spatial unfolding. The chairs, though functional objects, become mediators of space, engaging the viewer in an oscillation between form and formlessness, structure and interiority.

Thus, central to structure, interior is the relationship between form and activation. When unoccupied, the chairs articulate a rigid, geometric logic; their empty frames echo the abstraction of Cartesian reason. Yet when occupied, they become both activated and obstructed by human presence, disrupting their formal purity. This interplay between object and occupant recalls Descartes’ invocation of God as the mediator between Mind and Matter—a force that reconciles the rationality of geometric form with the unpredictability of human agency.

The installation positions architectural space as a site of negotiation between order and experience. It suggests that the quadrilateral forms defining our physical and conceptual environments are not merely structures but spaces of intersecting potentiality between function, aesthetics, and philosophical inquiry.