The Squeeze Chair Project Wendy Jacob
March 19—April 29, 1995

The Squeeze Chair Project Wendy Jacob

Wendy Jacob, Squeeze Chair, 1995. Exhibition view: The Squeeze Chair Project, Schipper & Krome, Cologne, 1995. Photo © Lothar Schnepf

Press Release

The Squeeze Chair Project is based on the conversation and collaborative design work of artist Wendy Jacob with Temple Grandin, an internationally recognized animal scientist who was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. The show is centered on a 'prototype squeeze chair' that Jacob realized as a result of these conversations. Autism is a developmental disorder, an alteration in the systems which process incoming information, causing the person to over-react to some stimuli...
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