Zhannet Podobed
Skin on Skin on Skin

Solo Exhibition Proposal
Exploring human skin, tree skin and digital skin as layered interfaces of memory, touch, and presence.

Exhibition Overview



Skin on Skin on Skin is a solo exhibition about skin as a living surface of connection between human bodies, trees, and digital systems. Bringing together interactive installation, projection, moving image, print, painting, and sculptural surfaces, the exhibition explores how touch, memory, and presence leave traces across both natural and digital layers.

In this project, skin is understood as a boundary that senses, protects, stores, and communicates. Human skin carries intimacy and vulnerability. Tree bark records time, weather and environmental change. Digital skin: screens, interfaces and coded surfaces shapes how we see and experience the world, while also leaving behind new kinds of trace.

The exhibition asks what happens when these different skins begin to overlap. In a time of constant digital stimulation, can technology become less distant and more attentive? Can digital interfaces feel less like barriers and more like emotional, permeable surfaces?

Through gesture-based interaction, layered projections, tactile materials,
and slow sensory environments, Skin on Skin on Skin invites viewers to experience connection beyond speed, function, and control. The exhibition approaches them as connected systems. It presents the digital not as something abstract or immaterial, but as another kind of skin one that holds memory, extends presence, and changes how we feel, touch, and relate to the world.
Key Themes
  • Layered skins
    Human skin, tree bark, and digital surfaces are explored as different kinds of skin that protect, record, and communicate
  • Trace and memory
    The exhibition looks at how surfaces hold marks of time, touch, damage, and change.
  • Embodied perception
    Visitors experience the works through movement, closeness, gesture, and attention.
  • Digital skin
    Digital surfaces are seen not as neutral tools, but as emotional and active parts of everyday life.