Edra Soto has been using plastic lawn chairs in her artwork long before they appeared on the cover of Bad Bunny's most recent album "Debí Tirar Más Fotos."
"In 2014 I did a series of chairs," she said. "They're upholstered, plastic 'monobloc' chairs. They're upholstered with beach towels."
The chairs, which are covered in beach towels with various animal faces on them, were featured in an exhibit at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City in 2023. Soto said the idea to make them was inspired by her childhood.
"I started reflecting about, if I was making furniture, what will that look like," she said. "In relationship to my culture, my experience with the cultural impact, I lived in Puerto Rico, and this was the result ... this style of the plastic outdoor chairs — they were very common in my household."
Then Bad Bunny released "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," last year and featured a pair of those exact chairs on the album cover.
"I had friends texting me, 'Your chairs, Edra! Your chairs, look! Just like how you put them in the gallery,'" she said.
So, Soto had the idea to reintroduce her reupholstered chairs, but this time cover them with Bad Bunny's face. But when she wasn't able to find Bad Bunny beach towels, she opted for blankets instead.
The result: 15 "BB (Bad Bunny) Chairs."
Three of them will be featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art's upcoming exhibit "Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón," which explores the histories of dancehall and reggaetón through contemporary art.
She said while the chairs are "ridiculously funny" they also represent the impact Bad Bunny has had on the Latino community, and Puerto Ricans in particular.
"I think, especially the last album, 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos,' he's important because it's an incredible portrait of the history of the music of Puerto Rico," she said. "He did something that was very necessary for the people of Puerto Rico, which was remind them of their value, their self value. And this is what I try to do through my work."
"Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón" will be on display at the MCA April 14-Sep 20, 2026.