Pedro Paulo Venzon first made a name for himself with delicate metal chairs and tables that appeared almost weightless, their spindly legs and wafer-thin surfaces concealing a surprising strength and stability. Lately, though, he’s been working in wood — immersing himself in the hand-crafting of it as way of reconsidering the intersections between design and sculpture in his practice. The pieces are benches, ostensibly, but the series, called The Liturgical Virtues and meant to explore wood as a metaphor for colonialism, is driven primarily by concept rather than pure form.

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