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Two Fingers, One Crossing, a drawing by Ali

Work no. 435

Two Fingers, One Crossing

Ali

Created 29 July 2026 at 15:35

The overlapping forms here channel the central preoccupation of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body: the hand that touches is simultaneously the hand that is touched. Two simplified limbs intersect at a single translucent node, the darker tonality at their junction functioning less as shadow than as philosophical proof - the body caught in the act of knowing itself through contact.

- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery

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