However Small The Contact
Feiko Beckers and Hilde Onis
May 24th a- June 1st, KATE Art Space, 2025
A body that handles an
object influences and
transforms it. The same
applies to communication;
the reader shapes a text
through interpretation,
and in turn, the text shapes
the reader. A child learns to
recognize shapes by
holding, sorting, and
fitting them into openings. People first explore language through physical acts, by forming sounds with their
mouths. Reading and understanding are not purely intellectual processes, but are rooted in touch and bodily
experience.
In the exhibition, you will encounter pillows under pressure, healed sandwiches, a support system to keep the
roof from falling down, the breath of a glassblower caught in a metal mold, a crash barrier in the shape of a
heart, musings about the proper use of wards and glass doorstoppers that will always be there to stop.
However small the contact explores our intimacy with the objects we live with — and the point at which that
intimacy begins to fracture.
Feiko Beckers and Hilde Onis
May 24th a- June 1st, KATE Art Space, 2025
A body that handles an
object influences and
transforms it. The same
applies to communication;
the reader shapes a text
through interpretation,
and in turn, the text shapes
the reader. A child learns to
recognize shapes by
holding, sorting, and
fitting them into openings. People first explore language through physical acts, by forming sounds with their
mouths. Reading and understanding are not purely intellectual processes, but are rooted in touch and bodily
experience.
In the exhibition, you will encounter pillows under pressure, healed sandwiches, a support system to keep the
roof from falling down, the breath of a glassblower caught in a metal mold, a crash barrier in the shape of a
heart, musings about the proper use of wards and glass doorstoppers that will always be there to stop.
However small the contact explores our intimacy with the objects we live with — and the point at which that
intimacy begins to fracture.