When There is No One Left to Sit
September 19, 2025 – October 24, 2025
Co-Prosperity, 3219-21 S. Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
from site: When There is No One Left to Sit presents recent works by Sayeda Misa Sourour. Images on film capture scenes from across Cairo—the artist’s familial home—alongside sculptures gesturing toward the form of the Monobloc chair. The “plastic chair” is perhaps the closest any common object has come to a platonic ideal. It occupies a transcultural, international seat as a designed object, carrying within it the potential to unite the globe in a state of post-xenophobic euphoria. This two-year project began in Egypt in the summer of 2023. The images are less an attempt at spectacle than an act of commemoration—not tied to a singular event or time, but to the condition of being-in-place. Photographs of these manufactured seats function as portraits of neighbors, family reunions, elders, patrons of the afternoon sun, and observers of the bustle(…)