Instead of “do not touch”, visitors to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich are invited to stroke the cool contours of Henry Moore’s Mother and Child, and urged to close their eyes and recall their first memory of being held and protected as an infant.
In an accompanying guide relayed through an app, Jago Cooper, the centre’s executive director, says: “Art isn’t a set of symbols to be read, it’s an emotional state of mind … If you can access that emotional connection, you can release the power of this living entity.”
