A Basic Instinct

A Basic Instinct

<p><span lang="EN-GB">With <em>A Basic Instinct</em>, Anna Aagaard Jensen aims to encourage a more provocative, emancipatory, and confrontational bodily posture in women’s body language. The chair is intended to boost women’s self-confidence by letting them take a more outspoken bodily posture, and to create a body language that enables women to claim more space in the public domain.&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-GB">The chair may only be used by people who identify as female. As soon as you take a seat, you will quickly realise that the chair forces you to lean back with self-assurance, to spread your legs and claim space. [text 2024]</span></p>

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With A Basic Instinct, Anna Aagaard Jensen aims to encourage a more provocative, emancipatory, and confrontational bodily posture in women’s body language. The chair is intended to boost women’s self-confidence by letting them take a more outspoken bodily posture, and to create a body language that enables women to claim more space in the public domain. The chair may only be used by people who identify as female. As soon as you take a seat, you will quickly realise that the chair forces you to lean back with self-assurance, to spread your legs and claim space. [text 2024]

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

A Basic Instinct

Artist

Anna Aagaard Jensen (Esbjerg 1991)

Dating

2018

Material and technique

polystyreen, polyuretheen schuim, talkpoeder, acryloplossing, glasvezel, pigment (make-up), lak

Object number

34944

Object type

stoel, installatie

Acquisition

aankoop met steun van het Mondriaan Fonds en de BankGiro Loterij 2019

Dimensions

hoogte 119 cm

breedte 136 cm

diepte 174 cm

Documentation

  • Do It Ourselves : A New Mentality in Dutch Design, Jeroen Junte, (Rotterdam, 2019), afb. kaft, p. 58 met afb.

  • Maria Magdalena : kroongetuige, zondaar, feminist, Devon Abts, Lieke Wijnia, (Zwolle, 2021), p. 130, afb. in kleur

  • Stoel neemt stelling, Inl. Bart Rutten, redactie Esther Darley, Natalie Dubois, Hans Schopping, auteurs Laurie Cluitmans, Catharina van Daalen, Esther Darley, Natalie Dubois, Bart Rutten, Anne van der Zwaag, (Utrecht, 2023), p. 17, afb.

Exhibitions

  • Stoel neemt stelling, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2023 - 2024

  • De tranen van Eros, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2020

Persistent url

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.3EC8CA4B-D9A3-46A8-B572-8BF31EDFAE7E

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