Brecht Wright Gander's Flesh Light lamp sheds light on "mechanical servants"
New York-based designer Brecht Wright Gander has created a wall sconce with a flesh-like silicone composite that is moved by motors to emphasise "the ways that even the most ordinary of domesticities often pulse with vitality".
The lighting piece, called Flesh Light, consists of a silicone material that resembles flesh, suspended between a series of steel fasteners that expand and contract with motors that stretch the material, so that it appears to perform an "eerie dance".
Brecht Wright Gander placed the contraption on a large, circular aluminium base with a LED light in the middle that shines through the silicon.
Bright Wright Gander has created the Flesh Light wall sconce
"This is a speculative design intended to direct attention to mechanical servants, which perform the thanklessly miraculous task of illumination," Gander told Dezeen. "By theatricalizing a synthetic lifeform and assigning that lifeform a task which we ordinarily associate with inanimate objects (sconces), I'm emphasizing the ways that even the most ordinary of domesticities often, in fact, pulse with vitality."
Originally unveiled via Object Gallery at Art Basel 2023 in Miami, the object crosses the line between functional and concept art, like much of Gander's work.
It consists of a silicone shade stretched between motors
The piece is 95 inches (2.4 metres) in diameter and 9 inches deep (22 centimetres).
The array of motors positioned on the outside of the circu...
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