Sculptor: Hannah Honeywill
About the sculpture and photograph:
The sculpture at the heart of this image is called Unfunction/Function. Made from a 1970s dining chair, reshaped and finished using furniture-making and restoring techniques, it deals with how the disabled or damaged human body is represented, perceived and treated in society. The sculpture is from a series that the artist created made as a reflection of their personal experience. The photograph makes suggestions to the viewer: What’s the chair doing there? Is it abandoned? Playful? In pain? Should I help it? What was its journey to get here, and how’s it going to get out?
The image was made using a ten minute exposure which gives the chair a particular clarity whilst showing the passage of time through the misty water. The ten minute exposure is a ‘hidden’ reference to the extra time that everything takes for the person who is disabled or unwell, and who is living in a world which discriminates against them.
