{"id":224002,"date":"2024-03-19T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=224002"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:34:28","slug":"catch-barbora-zilinskaites-solo-exhibit-in-la","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/catch-barbora-zilinskaites-solo-exhibit-in-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Barbora \u017dilinskaite\u0307’s ‘Chairs Don’t Cry’ Exhibit in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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March 19, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Timothy Doyon, courtesy of Friedman Benda Gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Catch Barbora \u017dilinskaite\u0307’s ‘Chairs Don’t Cry’ Exhibit in Los Angeles<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A mere 28 years old, Barbora \u017dilinskaite\u0307<\/a> has already had a noteworthy trajectory. She was born and educated in Lithuania, where she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in product and spatial design, lives in Brussels, and, lately, has been taking California by storm: recently participating in a group show at San Francisco gallery Jessica Silverman and now the subject of a solo exhibition, \u201cChairs Don\u2019t Cry,\u201d currently on view at Friedman Benda Los Angeles. All showcase not only her vivid, anthropomorphic work that blurs the line between person and object\u2014the show title attributing emotion to furniture\u2014but also her signature medium, reclaimed sawdust, which she sources from a nearby timber workshop. \u201cBeyond its aesthetic value\u2014texture, malleability, porosity\u2014I also appreciate the narrative behind using the material,\u201d \u017dilinskaite\u0307 says. \u201cObjects made from it already carry a story, and it continues to \u2018live,\u2019 shaping new forms instead of ending up in a landfill.\u201d But for Art Basel Switzerland in June, she\u2019s switching things up, crafting her Sunbather bench\u2014which is debuting in L.A. in blue-pigmented wood dust\u2014in pale-yellow concrete, her first of the kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Chairs Don\u2019t Cry,\u201d Barbora \u017dilinskaite\u0307\u2019s 10-piece solo exhibition at Friedman Benda gallery in Los Angeles through March 30, features the 9-foot-long sideboard While we hide our secrets there, they hide theirs, the 3-foot-tall mirror Mr. Judgy, and the 6 foot-long Sunbather bench, all in pigmented reclaimed sawdust.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 9-foot-long sideboard While we hide our secrets there, they hide theirs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n