Touch
Legnica Art Gallery, Poland

I designed these pieces by using pictograms to tell a story from our near past and present,

a story also about "touching".

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Until recently, we took for granted the privilege to touch and be touched by those we love and who love us back. The Covid-19 pandemic showed us otherwise. Torn away from that privilege, and even from the privilege to share the same space, we began touching virtually through computer screens and windows.

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Yet we continued to seek the warmth and texture of touch. If we were allowed to be in the same space, we reinvented contact by means of gloves, a contact that was both a touch and not a touch, at least approximating touch. We borrowed the blue surgical glove and made it a global symbol of this new kind of touching. The glove also became a symbol of hope, whose very wearing would make it unnecessary one day. 

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My first entry for the Touch open-call is 'Hand in hand - gloved'. The piece expresses that hope, hope for the innocence of holding hands without care again.

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My second entry, 'Hand in hand' represents that imagined future in a more abstracted form.