What Are You Touching

This project explores a form of femininity that moves between softness and resilience. Through touch, the hand becomes a vessel for emotion and unconscious gesture. It reveals fragility and unease while holding tension, aggression and raw resistance.

What Are You Touching?
Some softness,
some unease,
some slowly growing resistance.

This project explores a form of femininity suspended between softness and resilience, rooted in reflections on women’s lived experiences and complex emotional histories. Touch serves as the central thread of the work: the hand becomes a vessel for emotion, memory, and unconscious gesture. It embodies subtle vulnerability and unease, while simultaneously holding traces of latent aggression and resistance.

Through the staged presentation of everyday living spaces, the project foregrounds bodily details, tactile sensations, and moments of unconventional lighting as visual punctuations. These elements intensify the viewer’s attention and open small ruptures within the image. Posture and gesture become key sites through which psychological shifts are articulated—where the body quietly responds to invisible pressures, internalized expectations, and unspoken tensions embedded in the gendered social order shaped by patriarchal culture.

Within these subtle negotiations, the work observes moments of self-doubt, restraint, and quiet confrontation, as well as the possibility of release: instances where women move toward mutual recognition, support, and a sense of alliance beyond imposed roles.