A collection which explores the handfan and its connection to glass, photography, surveillance and the no-photo policy used in certain nightclubs. 

The handfan exists in the space between people, embodying the power dynamic created when we watch or are watched by others. It allows a person to counter their own visuality, to claim the right to look and be seen as and when they wish. The fan is a potent symbol in a tracked, data-collected and image-saturated culture, where surveillance encroaches on our right to be seen as human while ensuring we can rarely return the gaze of those who have the power to look.  Fans explore the power within the watched rather than watcher; they can be used to conceal, to countersurveille, and to reveal oneself only when desired.

A lens, like a fan, sits in the space between observer and observed. But where the lens can extend vision, the fan can block it. Both objects can either connect or separate spaces or people. It matters more how we believe ourselves to be in relation to another, rather than the object itself. Glass, a material known in modernity for its transparency, can be made to have other qualities, from transluscency, to opacity and even to resemble other materials. The fans explore these more nuanced uses of the material, not always for see-throughness: to block, conceal and partially reveal. Through their duality, their double-sidededness, the fans question the one way power dynamic within surveillance culture by exploring the view through the other side of the lens. The two sides of the fan, rather than only reflecting outwards, face one into the other, dissolving the separation in between.

Material, Technique and Dimensions

Each fan is made of Cast and Pate de Verre Granulated Glass, they are hand finished and polished. Price includes patinated steel stand.

Care

Clean with warm water or glass cleaner.