Mantas Lesauskas

XB-70 V - ArmchairXB-70 V ARMCHAIR is part of The Slipcover collection.
Presented in the solo exhibition of the same name at Vartai Gallery.

Rooted in military references, the piece reflects on how volumes — human or object — are wrapped, covered, shielded, and concealed. The slipcover evokes both protective domestic traditions and funerary imagery, later echoed in pop culture’s ghost iconography. Sheets once used to guard furniture from dust — largely made of our own skin — became both a practical cover and a symbol of control, absence, and presence.

2023

Blackened and limed oak, brushed aluminium, cotton canvas tarpaulin
70 × 120  with a cover (62 without a cover) × 73 cm 

Open edition.