The 'Pygmalion effect' is the phenomenon in which higher expectations lead to an increase in performance. Its inverse is the 'Golem effect', by which low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. Both effects are forms of a self-fulfilling prophecy; both observable effects at play in a world divided by the privilege of circumstance.
Using these themes, Seton replaces components of antique and modern bentwood chairs with his familiar medium of marble and digitally printed plastic proxies. The result is a series of hybrids in which the mass-produced melds with the hand made.
— Excerpt from exhibition essay by Chloé Wolifson
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