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The Hug by Daphne van de Velde

The Hug is a short film by Daphne van de Velde about the longing for contact in a world where people have to live in isolation, often in fear of intimacy. The work suggests a hunger for skin and a desire for real human contact: the feeling of connection between our bodies through screens. Van de Velde’s work explores perceptions of the body in the digital age, questioning how we conceptualise corporeality through flat screens which have become the default way we engage with one another.