This radical new edition from designer Robert Stadler is based on work made for the exhibition “L’usage des formes” at Palais De Tokyo. Made of wood and steel, this artwork is a real hammer. But the wave, which hits it with humor, which turns the handle in its very fiber, diverts its only function. The wave that distorts the handle is immediately perceived as the trace, the result of a clash of the mass of the hammer performing its function (driving a nail). But by freezing, imposing its new shape to the handle, the wave transforms the object’s function—it shows what we know but remains invisible in the experience. It is the paradoxical form of this revelation crossing in both directions, the intersection between design and art—the object becomes subject of the experience.

Courtesy of Galerie de Multiples