Perfect Touch (2021)

In Perfect Touch (2021), a set of hands present string figure games in sequence: giving and receiving, relaying connections, modeling networks, patterns to inhabit, digit upon digit. The two channels, situated on opposite faces, form a digital embrace across a divide, mirroring with difference. String figure games model our interconnectedness, searching for a way to visualize the influence that one body exerts on another. Making use of the physical interval, Perfect Touch explores the in-between spaces and invisible entanglements between us, navigating connection alongside distance and loss.

Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice— including performance, writing, and video— explores the position of witness with fragile systems. Rara is a contributing member of the ongoing project Lucky Dragons. Her work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Hammer Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London’s Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 in New York, REDCAT and LACMA in Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Rara is a 2018 recipient of the LACMA Art + Technology fellowship.

Perfect Touch (2021) was exhibited as part of Luminex "Dialogues of Light" an outdoor public art exhibition in downtown Los Angeles curated by Carman Zella of NOW ART.