Between Art and Furniture: Sentada Chair by Pedro Paulø-Venzon.

Brazilian designer Pedro Paulo Venzon returns with the Sentada Chair, a sleek object handcrafted out of raw steel. Described as a reappropriation of space, Pedro’s work is as political as ever, with this collection a direct response to conservatism and the policing of queer bodies.

Considering Outras Moralidades (The Other Moralities), the designer expanded on French academics Deleuze and Guattari’s work, with the latest collection “aim(ing) to make what, in the days of the rise of fascism and the new conservatism, is taken as an abjection and a problem, for the interior of the home and private spaces.”

Toeing the line between art and furniture, the chair pushes the limits of functionality with an impossibly thin frame and exaggerated silhouette in a protest against the control of bodies—taking aim against contemporary moralities.

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The word Sendata offers a window into the idea. Both a verb and noun, it means both the act of sitting and is also the name given to a sexual modality. “The sitting has a colonial history, when it was the nefarious sin,” Pedro elaborates, “it has a medical history, when it concerned, until the middle of the twentieth century, a perverse pleasure. It has a history of inventing new, non-reproductive pleasures that are thought of as counter-power.”

Sentada is, therefore, not just a sexy chair but an artefact that marks the space between bodies and objects. Some big ideas from the Brazilian native that make the beauty in his work all the better.

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[Images courtesy of Pedro Paulo Venzon.]