Twilight Interiors

Twilight Contemporary is delighted to announce the launch of Twilight Interiors - a new branch of the Twilight tree, working hand in hand with the gallery to explore the intersection of art and design.

Twilight Interiors will present a quarterly exhibition series at the gallery, inviting contemporary artists to adapt, reimagine, and rework classic pieces of furniture. To mark its debut, we present Chair - an inaugural exhibition inviting eighteen contemporary artists to transform and adapt the Bentwood chair. These are practising gallery artists, not furniture makers, approaching the object through the language of their own artistic practice in both unique and extraordinary ways.

The chair holds a seminal place in art history — from Joseph Kosuth’s foundational conceptual work One and Three Chairs, to Vincent van Gogh’s painted portraits of unoccupied seats, and Ai Weiwei’s Marble Chair Series, a critique of cultural heritage and political control. Reimagining the chair is not new: Marcel Duchamp famously mounted a bicycle wheel on a wooden stool in his 1913 Bicycle Wheel, while Sarah Lucas transformed chairs into plinths for her sculptures made from stuffed tights, challenging conventions of gender and sexuality.

In design history too, the chair has often been a site for seismic paradigm shifts from the Bauhaus’ radical modernist rethinking of form and function with the cantilever, to postmodern experiments that blurred utility and art.

For us, the chair represents both a bridge to Twilight Contemporary and a point of departure for Twilight Interiors - an object that sits between the realms of art and design, between the functional and the symbolic, between object and relic.

Eva Dixon

Automotive Specialist,

Islington station firehose, paracord, roofing screws, safety lock, rope clamp, key, Los Vegas calling card, ratchet straps, rivets, screw eyelet, heat shrink, metal glue and o-ring on bentwood chair

88 x 40 x 40, 2025

£2800

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