Replica

2025
materials Painting, Metal, CRT, Camera, Replicate AI Exhibitions Breek

A machine speaks to itself in an endless loop. An image is shown to an AI, reinterpreted, and generated again. The new version is then fed back into the system, starting the cycle over like a digital whispering game with no human audience. With each repetition, something changes. Details fade, edges blur, new forms appear. What began as a clear image slowly drifts into abstraction until the original is no longer traceable.

The process happens continuously and autonomously, without intervention or correction. It is a closed circuit, a system that sustains itself, learning nothing, forgetting everything. The work visualizes a slow collapse of meaning: how repetition and automation can transform information into noise.

The installation refers to the dead internet theory, the idea that a large part of online activity is no longer created by humans but by bots and algorithms interacting with each other. What remains is a self-generating world of data, detached from intention or awareness. In this space, the viewer witnesses an echo of that process: a machine watching, interpreting, and remaking until all traces of origin are lost.