Making the skin physically palpable, the body’s border with the outside world and the other, can be described as the visual language of her work. She explores the longing for contact in a world where people increasingly live in their own space. More and more, we use the skin to avoid revealing the intimate, or to prevent the other from intruding. How do we deal with our containment of ‘self’?
With her body, she explores the border as a transition zone between the internal and the external. Photography paper functions as a substitute for skin, the skin that meets, touches, physically reacts, protects and isolates. She experiments with the flat surface of her photographs, manipulating it to construct a fragile ruin-like photosculpture.
Daphne van de Velde is a multimedia artist who transcends (is transcending) the limitations of the photographic medium. Daphne van de Velde studied at the ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem and the Fotoacademie Amsterdam where she graduated cum laude. Her work has won several awards both nationally and internationally.
With her body, Van de Velde explores the border as a transition zone between the internal and the external, using the skin as a metaphor. The Mondriaan Fund has granted her a stipend for 2022 and there are exhibitions planned like Unseen Amsterdam, a duo show at Art Gallery O-68, and a solo show at Allard Wildenberg Art Projects. In 2021, her work was exhibited at festivals such as Big Art, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Photo IS:RAEL, Object/ Art Rotterdam, and Verzasca Foto Festival. She has received the Photoworks Photography+ (UK) Graduate Award and the Dupho SO 2020. She won the Artconnect competition and the upcoming talent prize at Foto Festival Naarden.
The exhibition is a part of an international competition “Restart”.
