Prompt for participants: Take a picture of someone wearing a chair on their head.
project statement
In Éric Chevillard's novel Au Plafond (On the Ceiling), the main character wears a chair upside-down on his head - both an absurdist gesture and a creative horizon from which the story itself unfolds. What is particularly noteworthy about this is how, in the hands of Chevillard, the act of wearing a chair upside down on one's head can be seamlessly integrated into an otherwise unremarkable narrative, without losing its creative edge or sense of humor. This project is an homage to this character in Chevillard's story, expanded into the real world of photographic practice as a documentary of everyday life made to act - for a moment - in ways that might otherwise be inconceivable.
