Two Chairs #3

The title indicates a paired-chair composition, the third variation on this motif. Two chairs in dialogue — perhaps facing one another, perhaps placed asymmetrically across an interior — invite reading as quiet figural surrogates: bodies absent, but their seats proposing relationship. The wooden chair is a recurrent subject across Yamamoto's interior work, treated as architectural object rather than functional furniture. Worked in monochrome on stone, the lithographic medium allows close attention to the grain of wood, the geometry of legs and rails, and the cast shadows that anchor the chairs to floor and wall. Continues the artist's investigation of small-scale domestic subjects rendered with the gravity usually reserved for figure painting, and runs adjacent to the concerns of the Light, Time, Silence series, where comparable interior objects are studied for the way directional light reveals their volume.