TOUCH, WONDER WHY

Annual Exhibition 2019 HFBK

The interior surface of a room becomes a membrane, the ticklish skin of a body. A space in the shape of a cylinder resonates by laughter - stimulated by stroking, ticklingand tapping the walls - sometimes softly, sometimes loud. Through the movement of hands on the surface of a wall the room gets in vibration - laughter echoes from it’s backside.

 

touch wonder why deals with the narrow boundaries, the thresholds of laughter. It’s about transitions, experiences about the tilting of laughter - about laughing along - tolaughing out, the conversion of joyous laughter to malicious glee, the sound of softly blubbering laughter behind the door turned into rumbling thunder.

 

An installation in which one can rest in silence and yet "behind the wall", a sack of laughter seemingly resting waits, to send out laughters into the world.