'Handle Citizen' is a result of a project Pittas did for the exhibition 'Extra Citizen' at Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp.
Antonis Pittas borrowed fifteen door handles from local residents of Kunsthal Extra City and gave a cast of his own hand in exchange.
"Door handles are the face of a house, you have expensive and cheap door handles, very old or hypermodern, you walk past them carelessly, but some door handles are true works of art. You often think that you can read a door handle, you think they tell you something about the people living inside. But that is not always true. Yet the door handle tells a lot about the history and composition of a neighborhood. At the same time it is a wonderful symbol for citizenship. Anyone who opens their doors will step out of the private into the public sphere and become a participant in urban life " - Antonis Pittas