permission to touch ?

The Dot Project presents permission to touch?, a group exhibition featuring the work of 15 international artists, working across diverse material-based practices that explore intersections of touch, identity and memory through their creative processes. The artists use alternative visual languages to tell broader stories, whether personal or communal. 

For some, the joy lies in discovering new freedoms through traditional techniques – manipulating paint and textiles, weaving and shaping textures to flow from immediate sensory engagement to deeper embedded in their material layers. Others employ their materials to explore the delicate tension between security and vulnerability.  

Many of the exhibited pieces reflect on the role  touch  –  a fundamental form of connection, plays in the formation of our identities and memories: every mark, stitch, and material transformation reflects a detail of lived experience, transforming consciousness into physical forms.  

The exhibition is an attempt to engage with the raw actuality of things, to navigate the delicate balance between touch and no-touch, presence and absence, comfort and discomfort.