Common Love,
Aesthetics of Becoming
April 27–June 11, 2011
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Christian de Vietri
Configuration #3 construction drawing, 2006
Two prints
24 x 24 in. each
Christian de Vietri's Configuration #3 is a set of directions to turn IKEA furniture into a fully functioning double pillory. While seemingly democratic in the availability of good design at affordable prices, the IKEA model also exploits the consumer in order to maximize profits by relying on the consumer to build furniture from purchased materials. In these prints, De Vietri has stylistically reproduced an Ikea instructional diagram with an eye to subverting the system IKEA has developed. He has printed 500 copies of these directions so that each gallery visitor may take one home.