Artist: Jana Sterbak
  Art work: Chair Apollinaire
  Made in 1996

Jana Sterbak created Chair Apollinaire, out of steak which is threaded onto a polyester chair. The dimensions of the chair are 110x117x147 cm. This piece was meant to include the viewer in many different ways. Not only is it something that would make any normal person sick at the sight of it, but as the meat starts to decay it attacks the viewers noses with the repulsive smell. In Chair Apollinaire, Sterkbak is displaying decay. We see decay everywhere such as chairs slowly falling apart and books falling off their spines, both of which are slow processes of decay. In the way that Sterkbak has attached fresh meat to the chair, the viewer can see the meat decay and smell it as well at a faster pace.
A chair is a form of relaxation and comfort. Meat is typically looked at as a food source. When the tummy is full the body is comforted and full. By combining the two Sterbak has made it so the viewer has to think about what they consider as comfort. She has changed the meaning of these two objects. This is not a chair you would want to sit in! And it clearly is not meat that you want to stick a knife in and start chewing away.
What I find is interesting is that as the meat dries up and ages the prized marbling that butchers price a good steak for disappears. The value of meat is changed.