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 viewer’s body as an index of harm. The work also functions as a fragmented calendar of violence: an archive of 1,000 images drawn from airstrikes across all the geographies that experienced aerial bombing throughout the year.
Paired with a real-time video feed, this archive is mapped onto the viewer’s reflection through pixel-color analysis, translating the body into a shifting composition of image, data, and historical residue.
The reflection responds to the viewer’s proximity. From a distance, the archive contracts into small fields of color, forming an abstracted silhouette. As the viewer approaches, individual pixels expand, allowing the embedded photographs to resolve into legible, often disquieting scenes of the disturbed skies. This choreography of perception stages a tension between recognition and abstraction, intimacy and distance, witness and spectacle.
By exposing the processes through which bodies become images and images become data, Twenty Twenty-Five interrogates the ways mediated violence is consumed, archived, and aestheticized. Twenty Twenty-Five seeks to question 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.