Led by an obsession for clean-cut form, the product design graduate has created a number of archetypal forms that relate with the common conception of a chair. With spruce being the natural choice of furniture makers to make the series of chairs, Matylda distorts and extracts the functionality through her ‘modus operandi’, exerting and gaining dominance over the chairs, transforming them into her conceptual pieces.
By torturing and destroying a series of chairs, Modus Operandi involved making 13 plain spruce chairs and destroying each in a different way. The ways of destruction involved being shot with a rifle, submerging in a pond for weeks, tarring and feathering, burning, burying, hanging, chopping up with axe, keeping neglected in a garden, and chaining up.
Krzykowski completed the project while studying at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
