Guided tour & closing night of the exhibiton Too Close to Remember.

The exhibition explores the theme of synaesthesis – i.e. a reaction of the body and mind and an experience that melds the sensory modalities of diverse entities existing in the digital, posthuman and technological environments. The project develops the discourse on various approaches to perception, especially in reference to the crisis of authenticity of human sensory perception that finds itself under pressure from contemporary power structures, surveillance and production. It builds on the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty who writes in his work Phenomenology of Perception that synesthesia offers proof that our perception is not formed by separate senses, but that it rather appears through their dialog and comprises the dynamic interaction of the whole body with its environment – i.e. reality. The exhibition does not aim to literally interpret approaches to neurological processes and their modifications. It rather becomes a situation, an opportunity for observation and encounter. The installations of the three featured artists aims to expand the frameworks of accepted alternatives and explores the often forcibly suppressed natural experiences of our sensory activity.