A photographer’s ode to the chair

For years, Jean Clavel, a French-Swiss national, knew Greece lone done summertime trips to Hydra. Recently, Athens drew him in.

“The metropolis allows you to beryllium who you want,” helium said. After working connected a Paris startup, Clavel saved wealth and moved to Kypseli. Last year, helium bought a motorcycle and traveled 20,000 kilometers crossed Greece, photographing chairs.

His fascination with photography began successful 2015 successful Buenos Aires, utilizing his mother’s aged Leica. “Photography captures the strength of the moment,” helium said.

From cafes to barns, Clavel documented chairs arsenic soundless witnesses of history. The white integrative Monobloc – named 1 of design’s astir influential objects – appears successful his bid of astir 400 images.

“The archetypal seat I photographed was successful Volos. I knew I had recovered my subject.” This month, 18 black-and-white prints are connected view successful “A Sitting Poetry,” staged wrong the long-closed flat of creator Aglaia Papa successful Kypseli. “Black and white places the subject successful a timeless frame,” Clavel said.

The accumulation runs done September 27 astatine 3 Kypselis, 1st floor, 3-8 p.m.