Bent Pipe Clamp
The Bent Pipe Clamp is a stand created by a photographer, a sculptor, and a curator working together from perspectives outside conventional product design.
This product was conceived with a focus on the simple act of “looking at things” and designed to hold and support.
By combining the photographer’s approach of “interpreting objects into images” with the sculptor’s perspective of tactility, expressed through the perception of texture and weight, the team shaped an experience of the sensations that emerge when material changes.
Its use is left open to the user, and depending on the choice and placement of objects, viewpoints and distances in daily life are gently shifted, allowing new circumstances of engagement with things to emerge.
Outline
The Bent Pipe Clamp is a product created by three practitioners from fields outside of product design that leaves room for interpretation and proposes multiple possibilities.
In the presentation space, the Bent Pipe Clamp supports familiar everyday objects on pedestals that seem to extend the atmosphere of the product itself.
As viewers enter the space, their reflections appear in the mirrored surfaces of the pedestals, causing subtle visual shifts that unsettle viewing perspectives and a sense of distance.
By approaching the stands or shifting their position, textures and forms that are usually overlooked emerge, revealing unexpected expressions.
Members
A collaborative project by photographer Kohei Kawatani, researcher and independent curator Chikei Hara, and sculptor Asako Ishizaki. Taking the image as a point of departure, the team works across photography and sculpture, research and curation, to explore new possibilities for what a product can be—approaching it from perspectives that diverge from conventional product design.