Forward Session
Forward Session x StickerApp 15.05.2025
Forward is proud to host an evening with renowned visual storyteller ERIK KESSELS, who will present his latest book project, Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch, which archives the human desire to put a hand on things.
Whether it’s cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans or even their graves–everything that can be touched will be touched. Containing 1.919 photos, this collection is far from ever being finished but provokes questions about the underlying motivations behind this universal pictorial behavior. Do we seek connection? Do we claim ownership? Or do we just want to measure ourselves to the objects of our world?
Presented in collaboration with STICKERAPP, this Forward Session is more than just a talk. Get to know the creative mind Erik Kessels with a cold beer and immersive yourself into a world of sticker. You can get your own signed copy of “Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch” onsite — available only at the event.
To celebrate the collab, StickerApp is giving you a FREE first order worth 30€ to create your own custom stickers.
ERIK KESSELSis a dutch graphic designer, advertising manager, editor, collector, exhibition curator and artist. In his projects, Kessels pays close attention to the most popular or trivial forms of photography. Such as family albums and commercial documentation, which would normally be rejected by canon-defining museums. But, by taking advantage of the extraordinary amount and availability of images, Kessels sifts through and recycles materials that are no longer needed.
