We can be close to each other, yet never truly meet. Contact that connects and unites bodies can still lack depth and openness.
The figures touch and move together, like in a dance.
They appear intertwined into one whole, united by a common movement. On the level of the body, this feels like an experience of union.
But the inner space of this merging is filled with contradiction and a struggle of individualities, experiences, and desires. Between the connections, zones of tension appear — distance, a no-man’s land that is often impossible to cross.
Distance exists inside the contact itself, creating resistance and pressure that tears it from within, yet at the same time gives it strength and vitality.
We can share a moment physically, but not share our feelings afterwards.
Is closeness always enough for distance to disappear?
It is possible to distance oneself even while holding another body and willingly submitting to bodily merging...

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