Charlotte and everybody else
2 headpieces
Silicone, super organza, electronic components
2025
As algorithmic potential becomes increasingly refined, surveillance systems grow ever more difficult to challenge. Yet those same algorithms are now capable of generating faces with no real-world existence, and yet they appear uncannily "real." One of the pieces in this duo of headpieces emerges from that uncanny valley known as the hyperreal. This artificial face subverts the identification system it was designed for, thereby disrupting its own logic and allowing for self-critique.
Here, these fashion accessories interface with an identity card reader: if the card is authentic, the pieces remain still and unchanged; if the card is deemed falsified, the faces begin to ripple and move, gradually unraveling an otherwise static identity.
The face, as a singular construct, an assembly of details and peculiarities that rarely duplicates itself, invites reflection on identity as a fixed and defined form: is it truly absolute and immutable? Or always in a transitory state, subject to renegotiation?
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