INCOMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TOUCH delete Maryam Jafri

Maryam Jafri

Among other works the book also reproduces the video ‘Three Sisters’ (2015)

the first monograph of work by Japanese-Mongolian painter Arisa Yoshioka

my life did not return to normal

for the discourse it sets forth is inevitably off-register

INCOMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TOUCH delete Maryam JafriDistilled from over 15. 000 family albums, Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch archives the human desire to put a hand on things. Whether its cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans or even their graves everything that can be touched will be touched. Containing only 2. 948 photos, this collection is far from ever being finished but provokes questions about the underlying motivations behind this universal pictorial behaviour.