The exhibition Too Close to Remember considers forms of synaesthesia in the context of bodies, minds and perceptions, in which the sensory modalities of various entities existing in digital, posthuman and technological environments intersect. The project develops a discourse on approaches to perception with reference to the crisis of human sensory authenticity and sincerity in the context of the burdens and challenges of contemporary systems of power structures, surveillance and production. It works with the idea of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who in The Phenomenology of Perception writes about synaesthesia as evidence that our perception is not produced by the response of separate senses, but by their dialogue creating dynamic interactions between the whole body and the surrounding environment - reality. The exhibition does not aspire to a literal interpretation of approaches to neurological processes or their modifications, but becomes a situation, an observation and an opportunity for encounter.

The installations by the three artists bring together research from the spheres of intermedia, interspecies coexistence and their potential poetics and non-conformity in order to expand the frameworks of acceptance of alternatives to the often forcibly suppressed natural experience and sensory sensitivity.

Curator: Viktória Pardovičová