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Objects that preserve traces, mimic functions, display fragility as a form of expression. A slowed-down gaze, a type of encounter based not on contact but on resonance: a poetic of vulnerability.
The idea of | after touch | - the moment when touch, although ceased, continues to work in the material. A second time, a reverberation that no longer belongs to the body, but does not detach itself from it completely. Matter seems to retain not only its perceptible form, but also the pulsation of a past presence. This subtle persistence gives the works a strange quality, making them seem impregnated with a mineral memory, forcing a closeness with a kind of delicate piety, a restrained gesture, the shadow they cast. By eliminating excess, the material becomes even more resonant – remaining silent only in appearance – and opens up to a poetic density that cannot be ignored.
Each fold is a movement imprinted in the delicate material, transforming the object into a garment of invisible corporality. A second membrane archiving past movements. Thorny things become fragments of mineralized nature, bearing both delicacy and danger. The touch they refuse is the same one they invite: a tension of closeness that invites the negotiation of distance. Each material presence seems to detach itself from its initial and suggested function, becoming the bearer of a fertile ambiguity.
The objects compose a coherent grammar of visual perception, a syntax of voids and tensions in which each form becomes a statement open to interpretation. They refuse to be what they seem: they are both recognizable and foreign, close and distant from the prototype-idea with which we associate them. This regime of ambivalence creates a zone of suspension, a discreet destabilization that, through "de-functionalization," restores a contemplative dimension to objects, reconfiguring the way the human eye understands matter and, implicitly, the world.
The exhibition aims to create a space in which the gaze itself becomes an act of "after touch," a space between gesture and trace, between touch and its prolonged echo in matter, to offer a field of relationships in which meaning is slowly structured, with the help of the viewer's willingness to give time, receptivity, and attention (in the deepest sense of the word).
Kassandra Mihai

The exhibition will run from December 19, 2025 to, January 07, 2026.
 
Curator: Kassandra Mihai
Coordonator: Anca Vintilă Dragu

A IMAGE GALLERY OF EXHIBITED ARTWORKS

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