Hot Seat is a wall-mounted object made from a radiator, whose central structure has been deformed and partially melted through the application of heat. The original function of sitting is visibly undermined: the chair appears as a negative form—fragmented, unstable, and no longer usable.
The work operates between utilitarian object and sculptural intervention, examining the transformation of everyday infrastructure under extreme conditions. Materiality, deformation, and residue emerge as visible inscriptions of impact and stress.
Drawing on current working and living conditions within artistic practice, Hot Seat responds to experiences of precarity, pressure, and structural instability. The act of sitting—as a symbol of participation, stability, and belonging—is disrupted and rendered inaccessible through heat.
The work can be understood as a commentary on a system that subjects artistic labor to economic and social pressure, raising the question of how collective structures can persist or be reimagined within such conditions.