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^{Dreaming (of You)} 2024, Plastic (ABS), Site-specific installation.
Text by Caroline Ballegaard (excerpt)

Like abandoned props from a scenography or figures of a playset, parts rest huddled together, scattered across the floor and over one another. Among the ambiguous forms — oscillating between the amorphous and the familiar — appear what resembles a jug, a shelf, a table, a camera, a chair, a toilet brush, a brick, a bust, and an arrowhead. As if arrested in a state between solid and unstable, their lines have morphed and mutated: Soft yet rugged, the contours are at once organic and artificial, skeletal and abstract. Still, some evoke a sense of functionality, while others remain foreign, an elusive riddle.

Dreaming (of You) is an ongoing installation that changes with each iteration in response to its setting, continuously expanding in new locations. Starting from a collection of digitized physical spaces, the installation interacts with the “collective” knowledge embedded in the environments where it is exhibited and in the training sets of artificial neural networks. Every room has a story. Every dataset, too. Serendipitous connections take place in the processing of data, birthing artifacts, or “hallucinations.” Using this purported nonsensicality, Dreaming (of You) plays with how spaces and their objects are coded, offering glimpses into the sea of data that neural networks navigate as well as ways of recoding in a continuous transference between the physical and the digital.