EUR_Asia includes, as an exhibition within the exhibition, also A Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch, a new installation by the multidisciplinary artist of Colombian-Korean-American origin Gala Porras-Kim, which concludes her two-year research path as Research Fellow of the Museo delle Civiltà and Artist in Residence at the MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale di Torino. The audio-video installation conveys to us the intimate relationship that is established between the objects in the collections and the people who look after them every day in the museum.
In A Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch (which plays with the possible meanings of the term Recollection as "remembering" and/or "re-collecting"), the artist asked Funzionarie e Funzionari, the officers in charge of the collections of the former Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, whether she could film them while they present some objects to which they feel close for professional or personal reasons.