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Pola Sieverding

touche-touche #7, 2023 
© Pola Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst 

In her reduced, almost sculptural visual language, Pola Sieverding explores the dynamics of touch in the photographic series touche-touche. Two bodies meet, hands grasp, embrace, intertwine - a tactile moment, a wavering between holding and letting go. Every gesture holds the potential for turmoil - tender, disturbing, seductive. In this ambivalence lies the tension that Jean-Luc Nancy describes as ‘touche-touche’: Touch as reciprocal movement, as contact that stirs, shifts, moves. It is impossible to touch without being touched yourself. This reciprocity is not only erotic, but existential - a play of the body with the outside, with its boundaries, its skin.

Pola Sieverding was born in Düsseldorf in 1981. She lives and works in Berlin. Sieverding completed her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her artistic practice includes photography, video and sound. In addition to numerous awards, her work has been shown internationally, including at documenta 13, Hamburger Bahnhof, Art in General New York and is in renowned collections.

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