Tête-à-Tête

The drawing tools: eco-cosmetic pencils.

Tete-a-Tete experience opens up a state of playfulness.
It's a natural state of exploration and curiosity. It brings joy and relaxation. It’s also the way for us humans to develop ourselves in a new way.

Because of this embodied situation, the reasoning is resting allowing unconsciousness or rather deep consciousness to navigate one’s presence.

The participants are seated on soft sculptures.

"Tete-a-Tete seeks to remove one's alienation to one's own body by removing speech and allowing only the skin as one's only canvas to communicate. What it achieves is the realisation that what one may have drawn onto one's body is something ethereal, unable to be expressed after all in any other way, which begs the question of how limited are we truly when we rely only on the conscious effort of speaking to express our soul." - Tiffany Salud

"I knew I'd enjoy this experience since I heard about Tete-a-Tete; a conversation with lines and colors instead of words! I knew it because I knew this is a challenge for me and for my "constantly word making brain". But experiencing it was more than I expected. So as I sat in silence and looked and drew on my skin, my brain was as loud as ever. But it changed. I don't know how and when it happened, but at a certain point I was there and there were little words being said inside of me. I watched and drew and I even lost myself a bit in some of those moments of drawing. It felt flowing and real. Thank you for this very beautiful experience! It did good to me" — Siavash Maraghechi

"I enjoyed this tete-a-tete very much. It was magic to stop talking from the moment we entered the elevator, which was a freaky experience by itself with all those mirrrors.When we just started it seemed to me that an hour would be very long. But the more we got into it and more and more loose and creative time became irrelevant. In the beginning I was to much comparing the experience to a normal conversation, and behaved like that. But this felt like I didn't behave free. So I dropped this and just followed the flow and jumped into it on my intuition. It became a language by itself. And I felt nicely connected. When we came downstairs again and the girls were asking how it was I looked at the other participants and I saw a big transformation, not only the warrrior facepaint but we looked so relaxed as if we just came out of a sauna. What was very special for me as a bodypainter is the new input and inspiration this beautiful experience gave me for my future bodypaintings." — Laetitia

“Drawing on my skin allowed me for a greater connection with my body - my hands, fingers, arms, face, eyes, ears, lips, nose. It engendered a process of becoming aware of these parts of the body, and, interestingly, it enabled me to go out of my body, to look at it from a different perspective - an imagined vision of my face I created in the process of drawing on since I was not able to see it. I had other moments in which my vantage point was still my body, behind my skin, while drawing on it.” — Iva Buzhashka

“For me the experience was both creative and somehow it felt like an intimate conversation. Not sexual. Sensual .. physical. Like we were all dancing very intimately with feeling of the strokes on our skin. But also dancing with eachother.” — Jeroen Hoekstra

“Right now the world feels full of noise, but to be with and create collectively with spontaneous scribbles and lines was more powerful and reassuring than numerous theater pieces/films and I’ve binged on these few months.”—Jennifer Carss