Touch Recorder
The installation consists of a series of large-format canvases stretched over wooden frames and painted with a primer. This choice of material creates a ready-to-absorb substrate, allowing the marks of touch, sweat, and the natural oil of the palm of the hand to accumulate on the surface and become the painting material itself.
The work has its roots in an action in the urban space, taking to the street with a canvas and inviting passersby to direct contact, believing that ‘true dialogue can only exist within touching distance.’ Within the exhibition space, visitors are invited to continue this exploration and apply pressure and friction to the surface of the canvas.
This action creates a physical counter-tension against the elasticity of the canvas, revealing the dynamics between the human body and the resistance of the material, and transforming the touch into an accumulated visual recording.
