Fragility – To Touch and Be Touched
Marlies De Munck; Pascal Gielen
English
2022
Published by Valiz
Printed by Amsterdam, Netherlands
17 x 12 cm, 64 pages, b/w, offset, , softcover
Designed by Lotte Schröder
In a competitive existence we hide our weak spots. Evaluation madness and the constant urge to innovate push people back further and further into a virtual shell. Anyway, we are all just messing about, says Marlies De Munck. She therefore pleads for openness and compassion. Because all this sheltering keeps you from touching. And from being touched. Pascal Gielen warmly advocates an aesthetic skill: the ability to experience, through all our senses, a ramshackle and fragile reality and still see it as a coherent whole.