Atelier Van Lieshout

Dental Wheel Chair

2021

Mixed media
137 x 95 x 200 cm

Patients can be made as comfortable as possible using improvised means. So the chair has been angled and the headrest wrapped. The cuspidor for blood and rinsing water is so large it cannot be missed.

The duty dentist has a mobile practice to work with that is more akin to a workshop than a medical treatment setting. The parts originate from home decoration or DIY centres. Pulled teeth are collected in jam jars so new dentures can be made from them at the dental lab.

Dental Wheel Chair (2021) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Le Voyage, Le Portique, Le Havre (FR), 2022
Kelder – Obsessions, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL), 2022
EHBO, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL), 2021 – 2022

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