Miriam Poletti (she/they) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Her art practice includes photography, textile sculpture, video and creative writing. Their work explores notions of tenderness, fragility and sociality on both a communal and individual level. The work process itself serves as a methodology to create new models of social interaction: through collaborations and workshops, the artworks are the result of a collective effort, questioning the idea of authorship and encouraging a sense of shared ownership.

The body, investigated in its minimal alterations, is soft, weak, porous and easily shaped or even bruised by the proximity of others. The audience is invited to interact physically with the works, squeezing or gently touching them, leaving their temporary imprint on them, drinking and consuming them, wearing them, making them their own. The skin becomes a site of possibility in which the nature of the encounter is determined through the performative act of touching.