Anna Aagaard Jensen's A Basic Instinct chairs reinvent "manspreading" for women
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Anna Aagaard Jensen has designed a series of chairs to challenge social norms and encourage women to claim more space with their bodies.
The flesh-coloured chairs in A Basic Instinct are made of fiberglass and acrylic resin, which has been tinted with blush makeup.
Each is a different shape that relates to an exaggerated form of the human body and encourages the user to spread their legs to sit. Men are not allowed to use the chairs.
The largest is known as The Big Lady, with front supports that look like massive, anthropomorphic spread legs. Another of the chairs features two globes that nestle between the legs of the sitter.
"The pink and organic form relates itself to the female body," Anna Aagaard Jensen told Dezeen. "The form and shape of The Big Lady is to some extend brutal ? it explains her aggressiveness towards change ? but with her detailing and use of makeup she becomes a complex creature that is also feminine, sensible and sexual. It?s the complexity of the woman ? we are more than just one thing!"
The project emerged from Aargaard Jensen's ongoing research into the construction of identity through different forms of media.
"I wanted to explore the body language of women because we seem to be more restricted than men," she said. "We seem to follow the rules/norms more tightly in contrary to men. We constantly think about how we are perceived instead of acting on an instinct, hence the title....
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