Everyday, within a single, simultaneous beat, we both consume and produce images, whether for the camera or not. In a culture where identity is performative and spectacle is the baseline, how we look remains critical: look, as in how one appears before others, and look as in a way to witness. The works presented in this exhibition performatively treat the surface of the body as though it were an image and the surface of the image as though it were a body. This closeness, this touch, and this mattering are thus considered through the interconnected cluster of terms including proximity, pleasure, and plasticity.