Warm it Touch it

2002

Most of the times it is prohibited to touch an art work. In this project viewers are invited to do so, and even more — the only way one can see the image is to touch it. This project presents a nexus between visual and non-visual — 150 photographic screens are printed with thermochromic liquid crystal impregnated ink, and stay black till heat touches it. It can be any source of heat — touch or breath can reveals obscured images as well. Whereas the photographs themselves consist of images of people hiding, running away, covering their faces. The image, in a flash, become visible for a short period of time, before disappearing back into a black screen, metaphor of the switched off television, the runaway from never ending advertisement campaigns and interactions with mass media.