Exhibitions:
EMMEDIA Gallery, Calgary, Canada (2026)
Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, USA (upcoming, 2026)
MUTEK Montreal, Village Numérique, Montreal, Canada (upcoming, 2026)
EMMEDIA Gallery, Calgary, Canada (2026)
Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, USA (upcoming, 2026)
MUTEK Montreal, Village Numérique, Montreal, Canada (upcoming, 2026)
Installation View I: further proximity
Installation View II: closer proximity
Twenty Twenty-Five is an interactive digital mirror that materializes the photographic residues of aerial violence in the year 2025, rendering the body as an index of harm. The installation pairs an archive of 1,000 photos of airstrikes in the year 2025 with the real-time video feed of the viewer. The archive represents the iconography of the disturbed sky, rendering the skies and skylines in Gaza, Iran, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Sudan, Syria, and Lebanon. Analyzing the pixel color of the viewer’s reflection, the installation maps the photos of the archive onto the reflection of the viewer based on color data. Reacting to the viewer’s proximity to the interactive mirror, the reflection oscillates between a clear reflection and an abstracted composition.
As the viewer approaches the mirror, individual pixels expand and the arranged airstrike images resolve into legible, often disquieting scenes; as the viewer recedes, the images shrink into small color-fields that reflect their silhouette.
As the viewer approaches the mirror, individual pixels expand and the arranged airstrike images resolve into legible, often disquieting scenes; as the viewer recedes, the images shrink into small color-fields that reflect their silhouette.
This proximity-based choreography of perception stages a tension between recognition and abstraction, intimacy and distance, witness and spectacle. By making visible the compositional logic that translates human bodies into images and images into data, the work interrogates how mediated violences are consumed, archived and aestheticized. Twenty Twenty-Five seeks to provoke ethical seeing: to refigure spectatorship into a visceral, accountable encounter with contemporary conflict. It invites sustained, embodied attention and asks viewers to reconsider responsibility, spectatorship, and the politics of distant suffering.