The Artist’s Chair is presented in the main room on the first floor of Maisons Daura, Résidence Internationale d’Artistes /MAGCP. Inspired by a piece of furniture from André Breton’s collection , they have adopted the design language of this chair : a circle as an armrest and a square as a seat. However, they go beyond mere replication; they have shaped these elements uniquely, resulting in two chairs engaging in a conversation. The result is an analogy in which past and present merge into a contemporary work of art. The ‘plinth’ , a green particleboard, forms the perfect backdrop for these furniture/sculptures, which are now mainly an artistic interpretation with a wink to the design of the ‘chair’. The sculpural element emerges in the dialogue between the two chairs. Its uniqueness lies in the abstraction of the circle and the square. Nevertheless, it remains a harmonious representation of two chairs at its core.

Demeulenaere and Moumouh get to know Krasinski's work through the intervention in his studio/studio/apartment that he shared with Henryk Stazewski in Warsaw/Warsaw. The “animator of the blue line” what Edward Krasinski most liked to call himself, uses a blue line as his trademark, made of electrical tape placed 1m30 above the ground, travels across windows, walls, curtains, private mementos, a publicity poster for one of his exhibitions, paintings hung or wrapped and leaning against walls, sinks surrounded by cleaning detergents.

With the same attitude, Demeulenaere and Moumouh want to move this blue line to the Maison André Breton. By applying the blue tape to the wall in this house, it turns the room into an artistic place, an art space, a stage. They temporarily appropriate the space, after this action where the application of this blue line is filmed simultaneously by the same artists, they roll up the tape again in the opposite direction.

“A Good Circle Makes A Good Square”

2024, Samyra Moumouh et Hans Demeulenaere