"INCOGNITO" (2013)

Performative installation

Plastic curtains, wooden box

Part of the tactile art project "Hidden Monuments – The Unlived Bodies of the City," organized by the Center for Visual and Multisensory Arts "Iztok 45", Plovdiv.

Incognito (2013) is a performance and live installation exploring touch's power as a primary communication form. Part of the tactile art project Hidden Monuments – The Unlived Bodies of the City in Plovdiv, the work invites participants to experience interaction without visual cues.

Set in a park, the installation consists of a light plastic curtain structure. Participants, guided with closed eyes, enter and sit across from the artist. Their hands meet inside a box with two openings, engaging in an intimate, wordless dialogue through touch. This experience challenges perceptions of physical connection, questioning how emotions—joy, fear, love, or sadness—can be expressed and understood without sight.

By eliminating visual identity, Incognito encourages participants to explore a “tactile alphabet,” a personal system of touch-based communication. The work invites reflection on how we interpret and respond to human contact, shifting focus from external appearance to physical interaction's raw, instinctive nature.