Chaises brings together artists working across sound, movement, sculpture, painting, and scenography — united by a shared interest in the spatial logic of social life.
Paris-based multidisciplinary creative and the originator of Chaises. Through daily observation of Luxembourg Gardens, Jimmy identified the silent choreography of the green metal chairs — the social geometries that form and dissolve each day without direction. He conceived the project's vision and supports its realisation across five simultaneous art outputs.
Allard van Hoorn (b. 1968) is a Dutch, Paris-based sound, installation and performance artist. His practice centres on Urban Songlines — a long-running series of collaborative performances that translate buildings and public spaces into music through site-specific sound generation, examining inclusion, belonging and our claim over the public domain.
Work has been presented at Tate St Ives, Whitney Museum, MAAT Lisbon, Van Abbemuseum and major biennials worldwide. For Chaises, Allard serves as creative director and leads the scenographic design and sound composition layer. He connected the project to the analytical framework of William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, reproduced and the OSU Synchronous Objects project.
Charlotte Tampol is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist working in oil painting, printmaking, photography, and tattoo. Raised by a single mother and grandmother, her experience as a white-passing half-Asian woman shapes work that explores femininity, misogyny, and the sublime.
Drawing on art history, feminism, and Filipino tattoo culture, she uses her practice to navigate the different worlds her ancestry inhabits.
Quinn Lewis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In his work, Lewis finds complexity in the mundane, highlighting significance in common objects and routine through careful observation and personification. Drawing on an interest in simple machines and sequential storytelling, Lewis combines sculpture and animation to create layered, kinetic apparatuses.
Following his undergraduate degree at Bard College, Lewis aims to pursue work in printmaking and graphic novels, bringing his practice to social and accessible avenues. For Chaises, Quinn brings his eye for the poetic weight of everyday objects to the project's sculptural and kinetic dimensions.
Chaises is supported by the New to the Wall Foundation — a private foundation dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and supporting contemporary artists. The foundation commissions new work and produces cross-disciplinary projects, partnering directly with artists to realise ambitious ideas.
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