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Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here? Opens at Art On Hulfish. Come say hi if you’re near Princeton.
Princeton University Art Museum
11 May – 4 August
Curated by Susannah Baker-Smith and Susan Bright
The title of this exhibition is a line from the poem ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ by
the Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist Ocean Vuong. Threaded
throughout the poem are feelings of longing, rapture and pain, the knowledge that it is
through touch that we find ourselves, not just our physical selves, but who we are, our
humanity as well as our vulnerability.
This exhibition takes up the question ‘Don’t we
touch each other just to prove we are still here? for this exhibition, and explore its
aliveness and complexity through the framing of materiality, affect, embodiment and
collaboration in relation to touch and photography.
To touch is always to be touched, our bodies are always responding to our environment
in some way. Touch is a mutual tool for social connection, a way to communicate, it is
also our means of feeling embodied, and the vehicle for intimacy. The haptic, however,
is not immediately associated with photography, but we propose that it has a significant relationship with the medium, one that can be inclusive and diverse, spanning all kinds of relationships, as well as different processes and approaches. As Merleau-Ponty
observes, “since the same body sees and touches, visible and tangible belong to the
same world”. | Posted on 08/May/2024 21:08:29
