APTICA

The haptic perception is the process of recognising objects through touch, combining the tactile perception of objects on the surface of the skin, and the proprioception of the body’s position in relation to the object. With Aptica, we try to place ourselves in the infra-thin space between skin and dress, fostering the emergence of an intimate public space, made of surfaces, where contact takes place. Surfaces as relational interfaces, as mutable repositories of visual narratives, and at the same time as conceptual tools to think over materiality in our present. Skin, dress, or decency are words that reactivate the a-logical sphere of conscience. The decent holding and lingering in the eroticism of a rocking movement, at the origin of decency, encapsulates a certain ‘imbalance’ given by the co-presence of opposite directions, a traffic jam of drives and consequent oscillations. So, the ripples in the texture of the dress hold back the inner rhythm, and reach a not immobile pause.