Skin Hunger explores touch as a language through which people communicate, encounter one another and experience care. Developed and produced by Alice Héron and Margherita Soldati during the COVID-19 pandemic, the work responds to an intensified absence of physical contact by bringing tactility into the intimate act of eating.

The project takes the form of an individual, five-course breakfast. Each course combines food with a specially designed object and a massage ritual, inviting participants to attend to the textures and sensations of being touched. Taste and touch become intertwined, opening a space to experience how physical contact can evoke emotion and shape a sense of connection. Through this tactile dining experience, Skin Hunger asks how care can be felt and communicated through the body.

You can explore the project on Mediamatic and read more about it in the Unbore article.

Realised thanks to the Mediamatic team, Kenneth Moreno Kiernan, Alice Sprascio, Krisztina Czika and Marit Heinen.
Photography: Anisa Xhomaqi.