In my artistic practice, I create visual spaces where analog found objects and digital processes overlap. I am interested in how memories change under these conditions—not as fixed recollections, but as fluid, newly assembled fragments.
The starting point for many works are letters, photographs, family albums, or everyday objects. Through digital interventions and the use of artificial intelligence, these materials are shifted, supplemented, and in some cases regenerated. This results in images that oscillate between document and construction, without allowing themselves to be clearly defined.
Many works do not follow a linear temporal logic. Set up in a loop, they circle around states that repeat and simultaneously change. Memory appears here not as something concluded, but as a process of continuous superimposition.
I am also interested in the emotional quality of these images: moments of familiarity that can tip over, blurriness that does not resolve. It remains open whether what we see behaves more like a dream or a nightmare.
Digital systems do not store and process such images neutrally. They organize, weigh, and perpetuate meanings. In this interplay, an image of identity emerges that is less found than generated.
What remains of the concept of humanity when its contours are increasingly shaped by artificial systems?
Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, May 2026
