Even before I was deeply immersed in art, museums always seemed cold to me. It was generally unclear why people went there or what they took away from the experience. It feels to me that for the modern person, simply looking at paintings hanging on a wall is no longer enough.

They need new experiences and new ways of understanding the world. I am a tactile person, and I perceive everything better if I can touch it.

This is how the project "Art Within Touch" was born.

The project helps the viewer experience paintings through unfamiliar channels—both tactile and cognitive. It works with associations, memory, and perception. It demonstrates how we perceive this world not only through our eyes. It appeals to our memory of what we once saw, perceived, and how we feel about it now.

Closed boxes switch off habitual visuality, shifting to a different level of perception, prompting the viewer to pause, immerse themselves in their inner world, develop synesthesia, and begin perceiving the familiar world through other channels.
To literally touch art, to feel it within touch.

Are you sure you remember the image?

We are used to thinking that our memory is locked onto visuality. However, scents and tactility can turn out to be stronger. The project proposes building a new image through a non-visual component.