Please Touch

Station Beirut · Curated by Agial Art Gallery·2014

Tactile Performances

Please Touch brought together around twenty sculptures created blindfolded, alongside an interactive living-sculpture performance and an expressionistic film. Visitors were invited to encounter the sculptures through touch and in darkness, shifting the experience of sculpture from sight to tactile perception.

The project explored the role of touch in artistic creation, its relationship to memory, and the boundaries between body, sculpture and viewer. What if you have to touch to see?

Credits

Concept:: Nadine Abou Zaki
Living sculpture:: Lisa Chehade
Textile recreation:: Bshara Atallah
Expressionistic film:: Muriel Aboulrouss
Artistic lighting:: Alaa Minawi
Touch-sound design:: Zeid Hamdan

Interactive Performance & Living Sculpture

A living sculpture concealed beneath textile responded to contact and transformed into new forms. Visitors entered a darkened space and encountered the work through touch rather than sight.

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Sculpture Exhibition

Approximately twenty sculptures created blindfolded, shown so that each work could be approached and touched.

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Expressionistic Film

An expressionistic film portraying the artist’s emotions while sculpting blindfolded in the dark. All sounds and images are extracted from her universe. Directed by Muriel Aboulrouss, produced by Denise Jabbour, edited by Liliane Hanbali.

Watch the film