Intimacy concerns the possibility of sharing one’s self. The possibility to stand bare, with all my flaws, afflictions, desires, and stories. The ability to embrace these in the other. A place to ask questions about our secrets. Intimacy opens a space where one can work, get to know, and turn the secret into a fact. So that we can tell a real story, establish a foundation of honesty for everyday life. In a reality where body and sexuality have become commodities and exposure has been reduced to acts of stripping and promiscuity – intimacy has become pornographic.

When things are nothing but systems of seduction and arousal – objects of desire – when alienation has become a way of life, intimacy becomes a question and a challenge. The desire for closeness deepens, the need to feel and connect for the sake of creating the next generation and securing the future demands to be answered.​

Intimacy takes us back to the Garden of Eden – standing before one another naked – after the expulsion, challenging the relationship between nature and reason that originates in separation, shame, and anxiety.
It leads us in the trail of curiosity, beyond judgment and determination. Opens a space where thought, emotion, and body merge.

Intimacy diverts thought and action to a space of sensuality – an erotic space of seduction and arousal that has no motive nor purpose. beyond exploitation and oppression. Beyond profit and towards wellbeing. Intimacy makes us “less-than-one” that is “more than one.”

The degree of safety determines the degree of exposure, and the degree of exposure determines the degree of intimacy.