Inspired by Luce Irigaray’s text “Perhaps cultivating touch can still save us”, the title of the show
indicates the physical experience of the other as a fundamental premise in the articulation of the
self. In some of the most salient passages of Irigaray’s essay, the author suggests that touch does
not simply underlie an intimate encounter with another subject, but it actually plays a crucial role in
the definition of one’s own identity. The process of identification of one’s own nature through
tactile experience is here imagined as an actual path, a journey through the landscape of the body
and its social habitat, two territories appearing as both exotic and familiar. Departing from some of
the key propositions that constitute Irigaray’s theoretical contribution, the present exhibition
proposes a dialogue among a series of artistic practices incarnating different languages and
researches and yet manifesting a shared sensitivity in relation to the idea of intimacy.