Over the course of a lifetime, the fingers of a hand bend and stretch around 25 million times. Our hands are the foundation of communication – instruments of creation, empathy, power, and expression. With them, we can build or break, nurture or reject. This series invites us to pause and take a closer look at these quiet yet powerful players.

In the digital age, our points of contact with the world are shifting ever more into the virtual. Screens are replacing direct, physical interaction – and the body, once the centre of lived experience, begins to drift from its grounding in the real.

Here, hands become storytellers of small, universal moments – the kind that emerge in stillness, in the unremarkable rhythms of daily life, revealing more than meets the eye. These are moments of transition, showing how our hands shape our connection to the world and form stories that each viewer can read in their own way. In a time of uncertainty, one question lingers: What kind of future will our hands create?

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Daša Geiger, born 1989 in Essen, is a visual artist working with photography and audiovisual media. She lives and works between the Ruhr area and Valencia. Her artistic practice explores the dynamic interplay between people, the spaces they inhabit, and the processes of social transformation. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural and Media Education in 2018, she completed a Master of Fine Arts in Media Art/Media Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2024.