In the video performance work Touch on Repeat (2023), the artist stages three forms of touch across three related performances. In the first, the artist wrestles with another performer. Across split screens, they push, pull and shove. At times, they block each other’s paths. At others, they adjust each other’s clothes or embrace. Touch appears here as unstable, shifting between care, intimacy, harm and control. The same hand that offers comfort can inflict pain.

In the second video, the artist performs alone, re-enacting the outstretched arms of God and Adam from Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. The small space between the fingers becomes a site of frustration. The artist reaches for herself but cannot make contact. Touch is figured as desire, distance and impossibility.

The final video shows a young girl having her hair stroked by an anonymous performer. The gesture is gentle, but its meaning remains uncertain. Touch is deeply subjective. What one person experiences as soothing, another may receive as intrusive or unsettling. A stranger’s touch can create discomfort, while a familiar touch can reassure. Context, consent, personal boundaries, cultural difference and individual history all shape how touch is given, received and understood in this work.