A seaside design exhibition by TOUCH WITH EYES
Curated by Marco De Amicis
 2025, Trabocco Mucchiola ,Ortona, Italy

Between the wooden beams of Trabocco Mucchiola, an ancient fishing machine reaching out into the sea, Frutti di Mare
emerges, the new epiphany of Touch With Eyes.
Alexander Kanygin and Anna Druzhinina have crossed Europe as nomads, chasing edges and silences: bare beaches,
resin-scented forests, remnants abandoned by civilization. Now, in Abruzzo, they have found an anchorage: a territory
of wild landscapes and untamed beauty, become home and archive, revelation and promise.
Their practice is born of long winter walks along the shore, of gathering what the sea returns as relic. Shells, fragments
of wood, remains etched by salt and left upon the sand. Anna and Alexander touch them, choose them, love them. And in
that love the matter transforms: shells igniting with light, lamps like hidden pearls.
Forms that distill memory and conjure the sea: fragile and fierce, they return its breath, its flavor, its stillness.
To exhibit this collection on a trabocco is a gesture beyond homage: it is a declaration. Here, suspended between sky and
water, between precariousness and endurance, design becomes liturgy, a slow ritual weaving memory and desire.
It takes us back to childhood, when on the beach we gathered shells as if they were treasures, and that desire to hold
onto the sea followed us home in winter, when pressing a shell to the ear we could still hear, in the echo of its hollow, the
breath of the entire sea.

Marco De Amicis