This iteration of Looking Forward while Looking Back: In Touch presents the work of Bonam Kim, Christine Rebhuhn, and Claudia Cortinez.
The practices of these artists question different subjects related to the idea of adaptation. In an inquiry about the tensions that exist when attempting to define boundaries, when extrapolating borders, when bending and adapting languages and systems, and when finding thresholds, they create new ways to build relationships with the world.
Rooted in the poetic relations that arise from the touch of different objects and thoughts, they position the body––sometimes their own––as the bridge within each attempt to create poetic pieces and actions that also function as acts of resistance. Physically and conceptually, the intersection of trajectories and histories and the gathering of narratives create encounters with the architecture of a place or space, memories, and hidden thoughts.
The works have multiple overlaps that are expressed as raw moments, reproduced to explore ideas of ephemerality and permanence, substance, and resistance while analyzing formal aspects of a place and its relevance and influence in daily life.