The Touch / Untouched series is an attempt to capture the paradox of touch—an experience that both connects and separates, that leaves a trace yet ultimately escapes recording. Touch is the most primal of the senses, the first language of the body, a memory inscribed in the skin, in muscular tension, in breath.
The works presented do not depict touch in a literal way. Instead, they operate through abstract form, rhythm, surface tension, and the relationship between matter and emptiness. Structures, tonal transitions, and organic shapes become visual equivalents of impulses—the trace of pressure, vibration, or a presence that is either fading or just beginning to emerge.
The duality expressed in the title, Touch / Untouched, refers to a threshold: between what has been disturbed and what remains intact; between the memory of an experience and its elusiveness. Within this space, the image emerges—as a record of a process, but also as a field of silence in which the viewer may rediscover their own experiences of touch: physical, emotional, or even metaphorical.
The series can be read as a reflection on the presence of the body in the world—its sensitivity, fragility, and its capacity to feel. Here, touch becomes not
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Touch Untouched (Series)
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Aleksandra Twardowska (born March 30, 1989, Zamość, Poland) is a Polish visual artist and Doctor of Arts in the discipline of fine arts and conservation of works of art. She works primarily with black-and-white photography and alternative photographic processes.
Her artistic practice combines multiple media, including analog and digital photography, graphic design, video, as well as spatial forms and artistic objects. Her work explores themes of water, memory, and transience, focusing on ephemeral phenomena and the boundaries of perception.
She graduated from the Faculty of Art at the Pedagogical University of Kraków. She also completed the School of Creative Photography at the Kraków Schools of Art (diploma in photographic emulsion techniques) and the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Zamość (diploma in ceramics).
She is the author of solo exhibitions and a participant in numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Her artistic practice combines multiple media, including analog and digital photography, graphic design, video, as well as spatial forms and artistic objects. Her work explores themes of water, memory, and transience, focusing on ephemeral phenomena and the boundaries of perception.
She graduated from the Faculty of Art at the Pedagogical University of Kraków. She also completed the School of Creative Photography at the Kraków Schools of Art (diploma in photographic emulsion techniques) and the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Zamość (diploma in ceramics).
She is the author of solo exhibitions and a participant in numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
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