Repetition is Development, Repetition is Development

In the field of performing arts the artist deals with a different process than that of a designer. You write a piece, you rehearse it until you learn it by heart and then, when you perfom it, you do it by memory. As an actor at a theater, you can do the same play three times a week for a year. Will the performance change over time? And in that case, is it improving or getting worse? When applying the same method to furniture design Arvid Gabrielsson is trying to learn something about ›the idea of a shape‹.

»We can have an exact image of a shape in our head but when we sketch it or make it, it doesn't always turn out like we imagined. It is also interesting to me how some things are not as good in reality as we remember them—or the other way around.«

To see how his mind influences the shape over time, Gabrielsson has designed a chair, ›rehearsed it‹ and then started the process of making it over and over again––from memory. After forty chairs, we might be able to tell how it is changing.

arvid.gabrielsson@konstfack.info

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