The Habits are a series of three statues that were produced to function a simple human habit in continuous mode.

John – Mary – Peter 

“Another intriguing but difficult work is by Chrysa Chouliara from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.  “Habits, John, Mary and Peter” is about human habits.  “We are really very repetitive beings,” says Choulliara.  “I wanted people to imagine what it would look like if they got stuck in a habit and just kept on doing it and doing it.”

For this exhibition Mary is on display – a TV addict.  “She might even be a TV companion,” says Chouliara.  “She never says anything, never interrupts, just watches.”

This work is a sort of anti-robot – most robots are perfect and clean, but these creatures have terrible sloth-like posture and bad habits – robots that people can relate to.  “I try to make them as imperfect as possible,” Chouliara says.”

From an article for design.nl by Gabrielle Kennedy / 04-11-2009