ceci n'est pas un handle. by gemma anton from spain

ceci n’est pas un handle. this is something else. a door is going to be opened with it but which door?. which is the space we’re going to reach by opening this door?. this is not a pipe. this is a handle-becoming of a hand that handles a pipe. the a priori simple action of opening a door becomes the action of opening a gap. something is happening. something is changing or is going to be changed. the momentary connection between a hand and a door is being produced, the handle is not an object anymore. its real nature comes out as a part of an assemblage that is going to show something we have never noticed before. what are we going to see?. what is next? what is in that new inside that, up to now we have been perceiving as an outside? which is really the door we are to open? a simple pipe taken out of context, a revision of magritte ‘s pipe which was never one. can it help us to be attentive? can it help us to reach the state from where we will be able to see in between or a little over; to see what we hitherto failed to capture? this is not a repetition of a classical form. this is a attempt to reactivate the possibility of a sensation. to open a fisure, a gap, from where things are nomore as they have always been. there was something we were missing. the technical part is simple. there are three interchageable pieces which are assembled by a screw. different finishings of those pieces are going to allow the customization that clients are going to make at the moment of choosing their own pipes. with few of them stocked, we’ll be able to have a big array of possibilities. starting from more classical, like inox or chrome, we can switch to textile fabrics or even plastic grass. And what about mingling both sides? it’s up to the customer. the end part of the pipe, where tobacco was once to be placed, now serves as a bolt. wouldn’t you try to open this door?