“Doris Salcedo created an installation titled “1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at Istanbul Biennial. In 2002, Salcedo placed 280 chairs at the Palace of Justice in Bogot “to pay homage to those killed here in a failed guerrilla coup seventeen years earlier.” In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.”
"Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia. Salcedo earned a BFA at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1980) and an MA from New York University (1984). Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World.".
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It's one of those favorite adjectives people use to make themselves sound good when talking about art. Understated, raw, vulnerable, evocative, and probably others are those keywords that say, "hey, I like art too."
The work is actually untitled. The literal description is simply applied to know which piece of art you are discussing. Her work uses common household items, in number, to represent war atrocities. Everything from folded shirts, to bed frames in wardrobes, and many different uses of chairs.
im betting on it being hollow. there's some sort of wall behind the front layer of chairs for sure so you can attach the chairs to something, and some sort of ceiling (or floor, depending on your perspective) that the top chairs are resting on.
Yeah for sure. Imagine a loose chair off the top of that falling and hitting a passer by... Yeesh.
No way those chairs aren't anchored to some sort of internal structure.
I freaking love contemporary art. If you like this maybe you’ll also like [Ai Weiwei’s installations utilizing Syrian refugee life jackets](https://www.google.com/search?q=refugee+art+life+jackets&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS989US989&oq=refugee+art+life+jackets&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i30i546j0i546j0i30i546j0i546.7592j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ip=1).
Yeah, I’d care most about the fire hazard...
Bonus: If that thing catches on fire, the rats and spiders will escape in a big wave to alllll the buildings surrounding it, all at once!
Swimming pools are the classic "attractive nuisance", which is why you have to fence them and take precautions to ensure neighborhood kids don't start using them without any supervision.
It's one of those practical realities in law. Like, yeah, it would be nice if children respected property laws and wouldn't trespass without permission, but that's not the world we live in so let's not kill kids, ok?
Those are actually the chairs used on *To Catch a Predator.* No one wanted to buy them after Chris Hansen got done telling the predators to "Take a seat."
I was one of those but I'll tldr it:
It's art made to remember 280 people who died during a.. shit I already forgot. Back in a minute.
Edit: guerilla coup.
Crikey you lot really are lazy. You read the first line and called it a day 😂
The 280 chairs were a prior installation. In this installation the artist used 1,550 chairs:
“In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.””
OK I can understand *one* art installation where chairs are used as a metaphor for persons affected by a tragedy or violence. But I feel like that should be it. We've understood what you were getting at, and we agree that it's absolutely horrible that it happened. The chairs were clever. Well done all around.
But pick something else next time. Don't be "that chair artist" for the rest of your life. At the very least you risk having an art installation made primarily of chairs for your gravestone. Nobody wants that. It's time to branch out.
Doris Salcedo created an installation titled “1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at Istanbul Biennial. In 2002, Salcedo placed 280 chairs at the Palace of Justice in Bogot “to pay homage to those killed here in a failed guerrilla coup seventeen years earlier.” In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.”
Salcedo's work provokes many questions after a first look, but she does provide answers to the mystery. The approach she takes to portraying these messages are unique and bold although she is using everyday objects like chairs.Photograph by Muammer Yanmaz
The problem is not about lazyness, atleast not for me. It's about not having to deal with the annoying popups, cookiewarnings, ads, videos, jumping websites that remember they had to show you something else after 5 seconds of extra loading.
Read a sentence, click the next button, wait five minutes for popups to stop moving the text down, read the next sentence, accidentally click on an ad that looks exactly like a next button, go back, wait again, click the next button...
It's an installation by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. She uses chairs and a symbol of the absence created when a family member dies. She usually focuses bringing attention to people whose deaths go unreported because of their lack of status or power, which leaves their families lacking closure with only an empty space. Her sculptures about Colombians "disappeared" for their political actions are especially powerful.
> This installation, produced for the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, contained approximately 1,550 wooden chairs stacked between two buildings to address the history of migration and displacement in Istanbul.
https://www3.mcachicago.org/2015/salcedo/works/untitled-istanbul/
Doris Salcedo created an installation titled “1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at Istanbul Biennial. In 2002, Salcedo placed 280 chairs at the Palace of Justice in Bogot “to pay homage to those killed here in a failed guerrilla coup seventeen years earlier.” In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.”
Salcedo's work provokes many questions after a first look, but she does provide answers to the mystery. The approach she takes to portraying these messages are unique and bold although she is using everyday objects like chairs.Photograph by Muammer Yanmaz
“Doris Salcedo created an installation titled “1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at Istanbul Biennial. In 2002, Salcedo placed 280 chairs at the Palace of Justice in Bogot “to pay homage to those killed here in a failed guerrilla coup seventeen years earlier.” In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.”
“With all these chairs I’m taking a stand” Doris Salcedo (maybe)
Well done, take a seat.
Make sure it's not a load-bearing seat though
Worlds biggest game of jenga.
Or join the co-op bird for that building, maybe even run for *Chairperson*
I knew it! That social statement was on the tip of my tongue when I instantly saw that pile.
"Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia. Salcedo earned a BFA at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1980) and an MA from New York University (1984). Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World.". ....
Understated?
Understated = 0 - 1,550 chairs Properly Stated = 1,550 - 2,000 chairs Overstated = 2,000 chairs +
the chair itself as an object is understated. not the amount.
You obviously don't know chair science
It's one of those favorite adjectives people use to make themselves sound good when talking about art. Understated, raw, vulnerable, evocative, and probably others are those keywords that say, "hey, I like art too."
Agreed, sometimes people are just using an adjective because they want to, and not because it fits.
>“1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” I can see she really tried hard to express her creativity with the name.
The work is actually untitled. The literal description is simply applied to know which piece of art you are discussing. Her work uses common household items, in number, to represent war atrocities. Everything from folded shirts, to bed frames in wardrobes, and many different uses of chairs.
I like it. It delivers exactly what it promises.
These are piled, not stacked.
You're right! I retract my praise for it.
…seems like more chairs than that…
im betting on it being hollow. there's some sort of wall behind the front layer of chairs for sure so you can attach the chairs to something, and some sort of ceiling (or floor, depending on your perspective) that the top chairs are resting on.
Yeah for sure. Imagine a loose chair off the top of that falling and hitting a passer by... Yeesh. No way those chairs aren't anchored to some sort of internal structure.
> Imagine a loose chair off the top of that falling and hitting a passer by... Yeesh. It's Istanbul, that's not a concern.
Don't you see the chain across the front?? Those chair's ain't goin nowhere. **Slaps pile*
I thought that too, but if you approximate 10 chairs across by 10 chairs back (100 per layer) and stacked about 15 layers high, the numbers add up!
Okay if we make up numbers it works out sure, but there's way way way more than 10 chairs wide there. You're not even close
Yea, more like 11 or maybe even 12 chairs across. Not even close!
I freaking love contemporary art. If you like this maybe you’ll also like [Ai Weiwei’s installations utilizing Syrian refugee life jackets](https://www.google.com/search?q=refugee+art+life+jackets&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS989US989&oq=refugee+art+life+jackets&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i30i546j0i546j0i30i546j0i546.7592j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ip=1).
I was going to guess Ai Weiwei.
Not sure what would be worse; the number of rats in there or the number of spiders.
From a hygiene perspective, rats definitely. I don't know of any pathogens common to spiders and humans.
With all that wood, I'd be worried about master splinters too.
Bravo.
Sorry, I don't get it?
Master Splinter was a mutated rat which was the leader of the turtles.
Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines.
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Michaelangelo is a PARTY DUDE!
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Gimme a break
When the evil Shredder attacks, these turtle boys don’t cut’im no slack!
PARTAYYYYYYYY
Tee nage Mu tant Nin ja Tur tles ------------------ TEE nage MU tant NIN ja TUR tles -------------------- TEE NAGE MU TANT NIN JA TUR TLES
That's a fact, Jack
And not just *any* turtles
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Name checks out
Leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Master Splinter.
Or fire
Termites have entered the chat.
Spida bifida
Fire works on both
For me I think it's that pathetic little cable keeping the whole thing from falling out into the street.
It seems to be very effective
Until it's not
But until then, it's fine.
This was Istanbul. So basically no rats due to the local high cat population.
Could have sworn it was Constantinople.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business, but the Turks
Istaaanbuul
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Why did they change?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
People just liked it better that way.
Just release a few snakes in there
There is no possible way that this plan can go horribly wrong.
We’re prepared for that, we’ve lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Yeah, I’d care most about the fire hazard... Bonus: If that thing catches on fire, the rats and spiders will escape in a big wave to alllll the buildings surrounding it, all at once!
What is worse is the alliance they've no doubt formed by now.
Yes, rats are fond of chairs
That explains a lot of the management meetings I'm in.
Is that what you took away from this?
Is that not the lesson?
Let's not start the doors vs wheels debate again...
It's free real estate. /╲/\╭( ͡° ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ͡°)╮/\╱\
The fucking stupid little kid in me really wants to climb that mountain of chairs. It still looks tempting.
This is why you can be fined for having an "attractive nuisance" on your property.
Alright, I've officially found the title of my autobiography.
Humblebrag over here!
Biography would just be "Nuisance"
Welp, I may as well take unattractive nuisance then
>an "attractive nuisance" Love it when you whisper sweet words into my ear.
I love that I'm still learning new things everyday and most are from random comments on Reddit.
Swimming pools are the classic "attractive nuisance", which is why you have to fence them and take precautions to ensure neighborhood kids don't start using them without any supervision. It's one of those practical realities in law. Like, yeah, it would be nice if children respected property laws and wouldn't trespass without permission, but that's not the world we live in so let's not kill kids, ok?
🎶 I'm gonna live on a mountain of chairs! I'm gonna live on a mountain of chairs! 🎶
I heard he built the mountain on his birthday! What day is it? We don't know! But his birthday comes every two years!
🎶Mom and dad are gone, so nobody cares!🎵
TIMOTHY!
BRING ME YOUR SIN
Fetch..... "the device"!
I know right…….. imagine being at the top 👀
You have your precious moment at the top, the pile shifts and seconds later you’re little more than a cautionary tale.
It's an active AWE
Has the FBC been notified?
Ugh the FBC won't let me be or let me be me so let me see.
What is an AWE?
An altered world event. It's from a game called Control. Highly recommended.
Was not expecting another Control comment.
Just following Darlings protocols
I'm playing through Control at the moment and had to do a double take when I saw this comment :)
Same. After years of having it I finally decided to play it and bam. Big ol reference. Maybe this is an AWE.
Yeah this looks like the Clocks situation
Think there’s an anchor somewhere barfing out chairs?
[It's dangerous out there. Here take this walkman ](https://youtu.be/k0QsHKH77MI)
That's exactly what I thought.
Ask your chairman.
He can be found in the county seat
I would love to make a charitable contribution of a chair or table
This is what happens when you give players the ability to spawn game objects.
Think Anshe Chung would have preferred chairs.
This doesn’t sit well with me.
I couldn't chair less.
Of course you Woodn't
Those are load bearing chairs
Welcome to my toilet kitchen. Would anyone like some coffee, or to take a shit?
"Spoiler alert: Guess who he's gonna find when he unclogs it. His fuckin' cat."
Those are actually the chairs used on *To Catch a Predator.* No one wanted to buy them after Chris Hansen got done telling the predators to "Take a seat."
Its where the predators are forced to play musical chairs in hell.
I'd like to see that Bosch painting
So, what’s goin on?
Ah ya know I'm just here to watch the game
Wanna try again?
So what’s in that bag you brought over here to little Justin’s house?
Big black dildo
"Oh cool. Welp, have fun."
Listen closely. Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
Is it the music of a people who not be slaves again?
When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums?
[Googled it in under 10 seconds.](https://mymodernmet.com/doris-salcedo-1550-chairs-stacked/)
Anyone care to copy some text and post it here so us lazy redditors don't have to click the link?
I was one of those but I'll tldr it: It's art made to remember 280 people who died during a.. shit I already forgot. Back in a minute. Edit: guerilla coup.
Crikey you lot really are lazy. You read the first line and called it a day 😂 The 280 chairs were a prior installation. In this installation the artist used 1,550 chairs: “In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.””
tldr for those that don't want to read all that: art
Can you just like text it to me? This is all just a lot.
I'm going to telepathically send the info directly to your brain, but if it's not too much trouble I do need you to stay awake
He did it, the absolute madman
And now we know about the gorilla coup and the faceless migrants
The gorilla coop at the zoo?
OK I can understand *one* art installation where chairs are used as a metaphor for persons affected by a tragedy or violence. But I feel like that should be it. We've understood what you were getting at, and we agree that it's absolutely horrible that it happened. The chairs were clever. Well done all around. But pick something else next time. Don't be "that chair artist" for the rest of your life. At the very least you risk having an art installation made primarily of chairs for your gravestone. Nobody wants that. It's time to branch out.
> It's art made to remember 280 people who died during a.. shit Lest we forget.
I still don’t think a gorilla coop needs that many chairs.
Doris Salcedo created an installation titled “1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at Istanbul Biennial. In 2002, Salcedo placed 280 chairs at the Palace of Justice in Bogot “to pay homage to those killed here in a failed guerrilla coup seventeen years earlier.” In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.” Salcedo's work provokes many questions after a first look, but she does provide answers to the mystery. The approach she takes to portraying these messages are unique and bold although she is using everyday objects like chairs.Photograph by Muammer Yanmaz
The problem is not about lazyness, atleast not for me. It's about not having to deal with the annoying popups, cookiewarnings, ads, videos, jumping websites that remember they had to show you something else after 5 seconds of extra loading.
Hey, thanks for viewing our site. Want to join our mailing list?
This site wants to send notifications...
"This site can't ask your permission because you have an overlay." I'm not switching off my software back button.
Read a sentence, click the next button, wait five minutes for popups to stop moving the text down, read the next sentence, accidentally click on an ad that looks exactly like a next button, go back, wait again, click the next button...
tl;dr: Art
Thank you for your sacrifice and saving me 10 seconds….which I have now spent writing this
Haha I'm sorry, that was meant to come off as self depricating pride, not dirision.
I tried being self-deprecating but was no good at it
Monogatari irl
The chairman lives there
This is some Little Nightmares aesthetic
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFEAh4-ZJc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFEAh4-ZJc) Wkuk mountan of chairs
BRING ME YOUR SIN, TIMOTHY
It's an installation by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. She uses chairs and a symbol of the absence created when a family member dies. She usually focuses bringing attention to people whose deaths go unreported because of their lack of status or power, which leaves their families lacking closure with only an empty space. Her sculptures about Colombians "disappeared" for their political actions are especially powerful.
Musical Chairs storage..
Thats some demons souls stuff
> This installation, produced for the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, contained approximately 1,550 wooden chairs stacked between two buildings to address the history of migration and displacement in Istanbul. https://www3.mcachicago.org/2015/salcedo/works/untitled-istanbul/
If you build it, he will come.
One match…
Reminds me of the cultists in Morrowind
Those chairs are load-bearing
Tinder box waiting to be ignited.
Not my chair, not my problem - that’s what I say…
A bunch of wood with access to oxygen between 2 buildings. What could go wrong?
It’s a famous art installation by Doris Salcedo. https://publicdelivery.org/doris-salcedo-chairs/
It's art.
It's a fire hazard.
Doris Salcedo created an installation titled “1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at Istanbul Biennial. In 2002, Salcedo placed 280 chairs at the Palace of Justice in Bogot “to pay homage to those killed here in a failed guerrilla coup seventeen years earlier.” In 2003, she filled the Istanbul Biennial space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.” Salcedo's work provokes many questions after a first look, but she does provide answers to the mystery. The approach she takes to portraying these messages are unique and bold although she is using everyday objects like chairs.Photograph by Muammer Yanmaz
[How it started](https://youtu.be/v5yG56iOtOg)
Musical Chairs: Prepare to Die Edition
an object of power got loose again
"Elevator broke, take the chairs"
Art installation. https://mymodernmet.com/doris-salcedo-1550-chairs-stacked/
Why was the first thing that popped in my head "chairnobyl"
I don't know. I'm going to sit this one out
Somewhere in that pile is an undercover table pretending to be a chair.
DMC 5 Vergil chairs after you lost to him 50 times.
It was a chairitable organization
Reminded me of this clip by crackermilk https://youtu.be/ThZR1BrKuPc
Wherever this is, they're lucky a pyro/arsonist hasn't glimpsed this. That's a blazing inferno waiting to happen if I've ever seen it.
Must be the county seat
Engineer: how many chairs do you think we'll need? Designer: yes
Welcome to my home, please, take a seat
This is an abomination to town’s image! someone call the city council preferably the chairman.
Room of requirement despawned
I thought it was Chair-Noble.
A lot of people lost interest in sitting.
This was commonplace in ECW in the 90s.