Gori Mora

The exhibition Being in Touch encapsulates the essence of a nostalgic summer, a time resonating with tenderness, love, and the beauty of human connections. There are moments in life that take us to a suspended reality—it's like that underwater kiss—where time slows down and everything feels weightless and surreal. We don't experience these moments in isolation but through tender friendships, romantic entanglements and skin-to-skin contact.

Through the medium of oil paint, I recreate and revisit certain intimate moments—echoing voices within queer communities. These paintings explore identity and embody timelessness, expressing the emotions of freedom, melancholy, and that bittersweet feeling when the summer comes to an end. They invite the viewer to witness intimacy, as a moment in time captured in stillness, usually away from the chaos of the world.

The subjects in the paintings are portrayedwith an expression of love and affection through tactile connections. There's a recurring motif of heads resembling organisms and simulating cell growth and multiplication. This sameness between the subjects is like images mirroring each other, which not only emphasises the importance of self-care but also of community care—we exist among the mutuality of our relationships as communal beings.