Cenotaph

2025

130 cm x 60 cm x 50 cm

Materials:
metal, velour, upholstery foam, wood

The coordinate system associated with Descartes has found practical application in theatres and opera houses. However, there are no seats or rows marked with the number 0, since zero serves as a point of reference rather than as a place that can be occupied.

Cenotaph is a soft tombstone made from an auditorium seat. Its title refers to the cenotaph, a symbolic empty tomb containing no body of the deceased. In this context, the seat becomes simultaneously a place of presence and absence.

The viewer is invited to sit in front of the object for several minutes, facing Cenotaph and looking at it until the eyes would begin to tire. Then close them. The red will disappear first, while the white zero will remain in the field of perception for another moment, opening the possibility of brief contact with emptiness.