what is the continental breakfast chair for

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The Continental Breakfast Chair is a unique chair created by Swedish sculptor and visual artist Anna Uddenberg as part of an art installation by Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York. The chair is designed to represent a modern object conceived as the perfect seat for a controversial human meal, where the meal is a sexual act and the "food" is the woman, suddenly transformed into an object. The artist said the chair stages an act of submission, where a woman becomes the symbol of passive submission. The seat seems to take its aesthetic influence from airline seats, hospital architecture, and hotel design, since "the sculptures express a hyper-functionality inaccessible to human use". The chair has gone viral on social media platforms, with many people confused and triggered by its unique design and meaning.