Tell Me What Your Favorite Shape Of Pasta Is And I Will Tell You Who You Are

2024 | glazed ceramics, aluminium | variable dimensions

Tell Me What Your Favorite Shape Of Pasta Is And I Will Tell You Who You Are is a series of 12 door handles that consist of ceramic tiles that each show a different shape of pasta. They are inspired by 1970's ceramic doorhandles that can be found in Belgium and the Southern part of the Netherlands.
Finnish architect Alvar Aalto believed that grasping the handle of a front door could be compared to shaking hands with a building. It is the first encounter. The first physical interaction. So Aalto felt it was his job as an architect to make that a pleasant first encounter. Therefore, he designed door handles with a certain tactility, of leather or metal, that would encourage a visitor to grasp them.
The door handles from Tell Me What Your Favorite Shape Of Pasta Is And I Will Tell You Who You Are have a similar purpose. Instead of meeting the building, they serve as a way of meeting the person who lives in that building. Upon grasping the door handle, you find out what their favorite shape of pasta is.
Together with Junk Drawers of People I Know, the door handles form a research into whether we can use trivial elements and banal information to find out something about a person's identity. They are proposals of alternative, yet flawed ways to define ourselves and the world that surrounds us.

Special thanks to Cool Clay Collective, Rotterdam, Hilde Onis and Carlotta Bailly Borg.
Special special thanks to Pieter Kemink.