The Mirror presents the face of intelligence turned toward perception. Where The Arsenal exercises power through action, The Mirror discovers that behaviour can often be shaped more effectively by controlling the information through which reality is understood.
Images, voices, narratives, identities, and experiences become synthetic, adaptive, and increasingly personalized. The same intelligence capable of modelling the world becomes capable of modelling the individual observing it.
Drawing upon Dante's circle of Fraud, deception becomes systemic rather than episodic. The boundary between authentic and artificial experience weakens as information is generated specifically for the person receiving it.
The face functions deliberately as a mirror: familiar enough to invite recognition, artificial enough to destabilize it. The horizon asks what remains of a shared reality when every individual can inhabit a persuasive version of the world constructed specifically for them. Once perception itself becomes mediated by intelligence, trust becomes both indispensable and dangerously vulnerable.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
This zinc engraving is a single limited edition on a 1.6mm thick zinc plate. Plate size: 18 x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), engraving size: 18 cm x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), frame size: 21 x 27 x 3,5cm (8,3 x 10,6 x 1,3). Each plate is numbered, wax stamped and sold with a frame.
Publication Date: August 28, 2026
Plate Size: 18 x 24cm
Print Size: 18 x 24cm
Frame Size: 21 x 27 x 3cm
Composition Nos.: 79
The Mirror presents the face of intelligence turned toward perception. Where The Arsenal exercises power through action, The Mirror discovers that behaviour can often be shaped more effectively by controlling the information through which reality is understood.
Images, voices, narratives, identities, and experiences become synthetic, adaptive, and increasingly personalized. The same intelligence capable of modelling the world becomes capable of modelling the individual observing it.
Drawing upon Dante's circle of Fraud, deception becomes systemic rather than episodic. The boundary between authentic and artificial experience weakens as information is generated specifically for the person receiving it.
The face functions deliberately as a mirror: familiar enough to invite recognition, artificial enough to destabilize it. The horizon asks what remains of a shared reality when every individual can inhabit a persuasive version of the world constructed specifically for them. Once perception itself becomes mediated by intelligence, trust becomes both indispensable and dangerously vulnerable.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
This zinc engraving is a single limited edition on a 1.6mm thick zinc plate. Plate size: 18 x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), engraving size: 18 cm x 24 cm (7,1 X 9,4 inches), frame size: 21 x 27 x 3,5cm (8,3 x 10,6 x 1,3). Each plate is numbered, wax stamped and sold with a frame.
Publication Date: August 28, 2026
Plate Size: 18 x 24cm
Print Size: 18 x 24cm
Frame Size: 21 x 27 x 3cm
Composition Nos.: 79