"Dutch artist Caren van Herwaarden uses a multimedia approach in her practice including works on paper and watercolours, drawings, collages, and sculptures. She is in search of finding the meaning of compassion, humanity, physicality, and erotica through her work. This results in art pieces that show strength in vulnerability, softness in mercilessness, and comfort in defeat. She focusses on bare beings, without any façade or frills. Because when in conflict, where you are not in control and the world is no longer feasible you must rely on others. The artist's work became darker, tangible, rawer, and more layered in the past years. To intensify the intimacy and the possibility to empathize she aims to create her work to be as physical and tangible as possible, to the point you can almost touch and smell it. This is exactly what TOUCH carries out, a publication that is close to the skin and won't let you go. This monograph is layered, sweltering, beastly, earthly, and raw, alternated by transparency, lightness, and simplicity of pencil drawings. The artworks interchange from light to ominous, dark, and monumental. From fast and hectic to forcibly slow-adagio."--Publisher information.