Because the 1800s, hitching posts have formed a historical past anchored in utility and neighborhood. Scattered all through cities and outdoors frequent areas, the sturdy objects provided a safe level to tie down horses, particularly throughout social occasions or gatherings. San Francisco-based artist Windy Chien reinterprets this purposeful object in her ongoing Hitching Put up collection.
Interdependent varieties are significantly fascinating to Chien. “If the article round which the hitch is tied have been to be eliminated, the hitch collapses and loses its integrity,” she says. Simply because the presence of the knot depends on one other factor to stay intact, social areas and gatherings depend on collective presence.
Having acquired commissions for the initiatives since 2019, Chien creates distinctive items for a variety of communal areas, equivalent to airports, places of work, homes, and ranches. Reducing picket helps to varied lengths and fastening rope by wrapping and knotting, the flowing and geometric compositions stretch throughout partitions and exterior facades.
Combining motifs from her Circuit Board series with different methods, Chien lately accomplished a big set up in a Los Angeles workplace stairwell comprised of 4 works, every spanning 20 toes huge in a gradient of six hues. In April, the artist is wanting ahead to Ruth Asawa’s retrospective at San Francisco MOMA, the place she shall be displaying a number of works alongside the exhibition. Discover extra on her website and Instagram.
