Warm it! Touch it!

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Most often, touching an artwork is prohibited. In this project, however, viewers are invited to do so, and moreover, it is the only way to see the image.

A connection is established here between the visual and the non-visual — 150 photographs are coated with a black thermochromic liquid crystal layer. As a result of interaction — heat exchange — the black layer expands the boundaries of the invisible and reveals the hidden image. The source of heat can be anything — touch or breath.

The image becomes visible for a moment, and at that instant one can see figures fleeing from the viewer’s gaze — hiding, covering their faces with various objects — before they disappear back into the invisible.

There is also metaphor here of a switched-off television, an escape from mass media into personal space..

2002.