DEEP-SKIN - à fleur de peau
Multimedia installation 2025
The multimedia installation DEEP-SKIN - à fleur de peau explores different ways of achieving a new form of intimacy
where the function of touch would no longer have any reason to exist, but where other modes of feelings would be invented.
If the new modes of online relationships allow for quasi-real intimacy, what does this sanitized intimacy reveal, where real
bodies are transformed into screen-bodies? What is a feeling of zero distance between bodies that no longer exist ? What is
missing in this kind of relationship and what is new in this mode of existence ?
Does the loneliness of screens really threaten
our real lives? Isn't the abandonment of the body what humanity has long desired ? Aren't our smooth, filtered digital identities
the secret choice we have made ? And what if, on the contrary, digital identities allowed us to imagine new ways of inventing
bodies and exploring new ways of being ?
DEEP-SKIN - à fleur de peau attempts to imagine future human relationships in the digital age, based on new emotions or
new ways of feeling that we do not yet know. Through a digitally animated story and a short virtual reality experience, the work
explores a new mode of intimacy where touch would no longer have a reason to exist, but where other modes of relationship would be
imagined through another skin, more capable of emotionally and psychologically touching the human spirit : a kind of even more
tactile skin, connected to new emotional depths.
With the support of Absolute Art AIR (Taiwan)