HOLD-ME-TIGHT is an interactive installation with two wall-mounted robotic arms that deliver an uncanny “embrace.” Solo visitors guide the arms themselves, while pairs let one partner control the other’s hug, exposing touch starvation, distance, and power dynamics of migration. Industrial-military styling collides with romantic gesture, questioning how intimacy mutates through machines.

HOLD-ME-TIGHT / Rose Ansari - Photo: Rose Ansari
Exhibit
HOLD-ME-TIGHT
Rose Ansari (IR)