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Rear Window: Visions of the average

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Untitled (Rear Window), 2024

REAR WINDOW
visions of the average

From my window I watch the daily hovering of the spider outside: the rhythm of its movements, the pauses of rest, the careful capture of its prey. My eyes observe it first, then my camera follows. The moment I press the shutter, what was once visible becomes a pile of data; encoded, stored and available for translation into other systems of vision. 

At the same time, vast databases of digital images move continuously through algorithmic processes (facial recognition, satellite mapping, generative systems). Seeing shifts from a lived experience into a computational operation. Image-to-image generation tools amplify and accelerate this transition. Images no longer serve as indexes of human experience but appear instead as the outcomes of datasets, probabilities and coded hierarchies. As vision gives way to computation, the unexpected is gradually smoothed over and a sum of averages takes over. 

Once processed further, the photograph of the spider is no longer mine to see; it is remodeled as a probability. In this paradigm, where the singular dissolves into the statistical, I seek ways for my human eyes to navigate these territories anew.

Latent channel I, III, IV, 2025
Visualizations of a photograph’s latent space representation, encoded by a VAE, rendered in warming stripes hues

Ruby sunrise, 2025

Latent channel II, 2025

Denoiser III, 2025

Film stills I–XII, 2025
Stills from two videos generated with Genie 3 image-to-video generation model, overlayed with original text