Under Instruction

Under Instruction

In Under Instruction, I used photographic projection to stage the body as a site of inscription rather than expression.  Historical images, pedagogical diagrams, and intimate iconography are projected onto the artist’s own body, producing a surface where authority, inheritance, and surveillance operate without physical contact. The work resists autobiographical confession in ...
Despair: A Weapon Against Neutrality

Despair: A Weapon Against Neutrality

This series confronts the sanitized, neutralized art world by weaponizing despair — portraying the rawness of human experience as a critique of indifference. It interrogates complicity, commercialism, and the erasure of trauma in contemporary visual culture. The series is a manifesto: the viewer cannot remain neutral. Despair fractures identity. These ...
Emotional Mask

Emotional Mask

My recent works advance my long-standing investigation into trauma, identity, and the politics of visibility by reconfiguring the mask as a carrier of emotion rather than a concealment device. In my hands, the mask becomes a volatile interface—half shield, half confession—through which exiled feelings find form. This strategy exposes the ...
The Mask Refuses this World

The Mask Refuses this World

In this new series, I advance my long-term investigation into the fractures of selfhood by introducing a masked figure whose porcelain stillness becomes a site of resistance. The mask—rigid, fragile, and deliberately unalive—interrupts the Western obsession with the expressive face. It rejects the algorithmic hunger for legible identity, for neatly ...
From melancholy to despair : Essential emotion or Claire Silver's sentient machine?

From melancholy to despair : Essential emotion or Claire Silver’s sentient machine?

A rich text, characteristic of Claire Silver's construction of the mythology of her collaboration with AI, a hybrid of conceptual art, speculative philosophy, and emotional intimacy with technology, triggers me to speak.She didn't actually "invent" anything in the sense of an exclusive process.Concept : “qualia” – refers to the subjective ...
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