Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch

Distilled from over 15.000 family albums, Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch by Erik Kessels, Thomas Sauvin and Karel de Mulder archives the human desire to put a hand on things. Whether it’s cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans or even their graves – everything that can be touched will be touched. Containing 1.919 photos, this collection is far from ever being finished but provokes questions about the underlying motivations behind this universal pictorial behavior. Do we seek connection? Do we claim ownership? Or do we just want to measure ourselves to the objects of our world?