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We are living in a digital age, a time where every aspect of the world has its virtual alter-ego. We all the more exist in the virtual space rather than in the real one, where time is somewhat suspended and we can infinitely create and recreate our virtual identities, in order to fit in the body-image ideals projected through the internet and to generate a sense of belonging in order to deal with solitude. Virtual space has no specific form, its boundaries cannot be defined, time loses has no linearity. It is a rather ‘dead’ space, if we define a ‘living’ one by the actual, physical presence of human individuals, of moving bodies. It is, also, a lonely space if one considers how it creates the idea of proximity but it is an idea that can never be materialized unless one escapes the virtual space and enters the actual one. But then, other questions arise through this act: after living so long in the virtual space, without having a specific form, being able to adjust and transform depending on which community one wants to fit in, how can one reenter the real space, embracing his/her one physical form, engaging in tangible communication? Remembering what once was, how we used to communicate is not the solution: memory can act as a point of departure but shouldn’t necessarily be the point of arrival, since we will never be the same again. Our current reality demands to invent new ways of communicating, of existing. It cries out for a new body.