Keep In Touch
"Keep In Touch" bridges the gap between digital detachment and the inherent need for tactile experiences by emphasizing the value of human touch and interaction.
This interactive exhibition reflects on how individuals lose touch with intimacy, value, and personal memory in a consumer-driven culture. The exhibition is designed as a communal space where people can contemplate value and sense memory. The value we imbue onto objects, products, and gifts, and how that value relates to our decisions, relationships, memories, and senses is explored through signs of touch that bare significance.
This work is largely an exploration of my relationship with what I buy. I am drawn to the object as a common ground for personal and social connection and reflection.
Collecting and working with barcodes has become ceremonial, meditative. This practice involves spending extra time with products, noticing and dissecting each item, actively connecting to my senses. In a part of the world bathed in excess and immediacy, this became an act of personal protest.
“Keep In Touch” is an invitation for others to participate in a similar kind of protest. This space invites you to practice engaging with inanimate objects to better understand what it means to be human.