regimes of recognition

The AI-generated works examine the face as a technical object within algorithmic image systems. Rather than functioning as portrait or identity, the face appears fragmented, measured, and translated into data. Structures of facial detection overlay photographic surfaces, transforming them into diagrams of machine legibility.

The visual reference to historical image carriers intersects with contemporary technologies, producing a post-digital tension in which the past is retrospectively rendered algorithmically readable. Glitch, distortion, and visual artifacts mark ruptures within digital order, pointing to the fragility of presumed objectivity. Visibility is negotiated as a form of control — a machinic gaze that observes, classifies, and does not look back.

 

December 2025