The current exhibition project is focused on the role of the physical gesture and contact in contemporary art conditions. Physical manifestations of the human body, symbolic gestures, signalled action, and actual physical interaction between individuals, all ranked among fundamental elements employed by classic art. In contemporary artistic production, however, they have tended to be present primarily in the fields of video and performance, and in parallel with these, in the field of contemporary dance. These seemingly most immediate means of interpersonal communication nonetheless also inherently bear the entire weight of the history of the reception of the human body in visual culture.
