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A Photographic Essay about Materiality and Touch
A Photographic Essay about Materiality and Touch
“Duo” is a photographic project about touch and tact, exploring the concept of materiality and tangibility in photography. Is it possible to evoke the sense of touch just by looking at an image, as if our eyes were touching what we are seeing? The photographs show textures and objects whose representation elicits a sensation of palpability, working the sensorial potential of the images, as well as moments of the use of touch, relative to the hands and skin. Our skin is full of receptors that transform the information felt into nerve impulses, later decoded by the brain. When we observe something and feel like touching it, vision and touch work together, creating the expectation of something tha can be pleasant to the touch. The device chosen to materialize the images was the slide, along with its projection. This support has many tactile characteristics, from the process of developing the film, the assembly of the slides in the frames, to the creation of a projected image. All these aspects are important to enhance the sensation of palpability, and especially for the possibility of obtaining a final product that transports the images to a tangible reality. Using two projectors to simultanesly show two images creates an overlap, which highlights the relationship between the element that touches, and what is touched, focusing on the action of touch. The two categories of images are confronted, and thus make this meaning stronger, through their junction.

