New York designer Brecht Wright Gander has created a light that is switched on by sliding a phallic conductor inside of a puckered, rubber opening, in the hopes of maximising the user's feelings of discomfort.
Currently on show at Room57 Gallery's inaugural exhibition, Gander's Another Fucking Lamp features a body made of three interconnected steel monoliths.
This elaborate structure serves to highlight its functioning as a kind of Rube Goldberg machine, which performs a simple task in a needlessly convoluted way.
Another Fucking Lamp features a three-pronged steel body
A fleshy, pink chord extends from the central pillar and rests inside of a velvet sleeve on top of the adjacent column, reminiscent of a gas pump at a petrol station.
Removing it from its holder and repeatedly inserting it into the orifice on the side illuminates a spherical bulb perched atop the third, and tallest metal post. Pink details are made of "fleshlike" rubber and silicone
"There is a capacitive sensor inside the orifice," Gander told Dezeen. "This sensor responds to the electrical charge in the user's skin, which is transmitted through a copper wire embedded in the umbilical."
"So the biological charge of the user triggers the light," he continued. "The human metabolic process literally has to converge in mutualism with the object's own processes, in order for illumination to occur."

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