Homo Furniture – 2024
The Man Swallowed by the Sofa” explores the complex relationship between human users and everyday domestic furniture—objects that are usually passive and subordinate, yet here begin to assert their presence and dominance. In the unsettling reality of the exhibition, the domestic setting emancipates itself and transforms into hybrid sculptures: furniture grows into humans, humans shrink into furniture, the boundary between user and object dissolves. Mucha invites us to reconsider the familiar comfort of our domestic environment by revealing its latent tension and the potential for things to act upon us rather than simply serve us.
The Man Swallowed by the Sofa” explores the complex relationship between human users and everyday domestic furniture—objects that are usually passive and subordinate, yet here begin to assert their presence and dominance. In the unsettling reality of the exhibition, the domestic setting emancipates itself and transforms into hybrid sculptures: furniture grows into humans, humans shrink into furniture, the boundary between user and object dissolves. Mucha invites us to reconsider the familiar comfort of our domestic environment by revealing its latent tension and the potential for things to act upon us rather than simply serve us.
The exhibition situates used pieces of furniture and interior-objects—many sourced from the archives of Cricoteka—into a new configuration that plays with scale, materiality, and function. In so doing, it stages a reversal: the furniture becomes actor, the human becomes stage-prop, and the space of living becomes a sculptural field of relational power and memory.”