Daphne van de Velde is a multimedia artist who transcends the limitations of the photographic medium. She studied at the ArtEZ University of the Arts and the Fotoacademie Amsterdam where she graduated cum laude. Making the body physically palpable, the discomfort in the emotional life of 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 them to construct fragile ruin-like photosculptures. The ongoing project OF ME AND YOU visualises boundary experiences of intimacy and the vulnerable, tender body and its desire and longing. Through her work, she tries to understand intimacy. It remains elusive because it is so tearing, we want to both merge and disconnect at the same time. A fight or an act of love, in her work it is therefore never quite clear what the body is involved in. All that is required to move from indifference to love is the courage to have our hearts broken. (Nick Cave | The Red Hand Files)

Daphne van de Velde (b. 1973) The work of Daphne van de Velde is a questioning of the photographic medium, an exploration of its possibilities. A photo sculpture corpse occupies the room. In the Netherlands, her work is currently among the top of innovative and spatial crossovers of photography with different media. She studied dance and architecture and continued her education at the ArtEZ University of the Arts and the Fotoacademie Amsterdam where she graduated cum laude in 2020. 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. The body becomes an image, and the image becomes the body. She distorts the flat surface of her photographs, manipulating them to construct fragile ruin-like photosculptures, resisting the superficial body and give them a physical, human quality again. Her work has won several awards both nationally and internationally like the Restart Award Lithuania, the Photoworks (UK) Graduate Award and the Selection of Dutch Photography Award.