Tactile Memories

Statement:

Tactile Memories explores touch, movement, and synesthesia, as well as the transformative power of our surroundings. It delves into visibility, motion, action, and chromatic perception to examine how visual stimuli suspend our awareness of time and space and evoke memories and sensations of touch.

Memories of touch profoundly influence our interactions with the world, shaping our engagement with people, spaces, and objects. Touch is associated with movement, temperature changes, and multi-sensory experiences that help us gather haptic information stored in our memory.

Certain areas of our body that are sensitive to touch act as hotspots for recalling haptic stimuli. The exploration of tactility and memory takes us on a journey through time, allowing us to reconnect with past experiences. The artists' works on view offer synesthetic connections and journeys through seeing. They explore their materials and approaches, starting with a sensory curiosity for the tactile senses.

The layers in their compositions evoke memories of tactile nature. The artists, especially as young Iranian women, express sensory experiences such as tactile reactions and memories, implying notions of body criminalization and visibility censorship.