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Using handcuffs as an anti-theft device for a bicycle creates a specific kind of poetics: the sarcastic staging of one’s own vulnerability. Handcuffs, functioning as a narrative sign, speak of a form of protection that is no longer technical but symbolic and performative. They do not truly secure the object; they frame it. The bicycle appears not as something defended by efficiency, but as something exposed, aware of risk, and publicly marked as such. In this gesture, security shifts from effectiveness to meaning, and the act of locking becomes a statement about distrust, fragility, and the need to make insecurity visible rather than resolved... 
