Touch and release: a pair of reluctances – installations, painting, sculptures, video and sound.

Touch and release – a contradictory pair of terms that Nassauischer Kunstverein will address from October 29, 2021. Touch Release is a group exhibition that brings together artistic proposals for uniting the supposedly paradoxical forces. Thereby, the contents do not directly refer to intimate, interpersonal relationships, but to political forms of rapprochement and repulsion. Thus, the exhibits are meant to reveal and narrate emerging tensions and all that emerges in between. During the exhibition, 21 students and alumni of Haegue Yang's class at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule will present their works, the making of which is to be understood as the first physical coming together of active and former enrollees of the university. At the same time, Touch Release aims to move away from the physical conceptual pair of touching and letting go and turn to the meaning of the play of forces behind it. The exhibition explores the permeability of seemingly hermetic systems and the bodies moving within them, which are essential to the existence of the two forces. 

The antagonists were made tangible by means of site-specific installations, paintings, sculptures, and video and sound art. Among the participating artists are Andreas Amble, Alex Chalmers, Mariam Kvirikashvili, Thủy Tiên Nguyễn and Emmilou Rößling. Touch Release can be visited until December 19, 2021.