Obsession is an interactive digital installation and a live-generated self-portrait created from tens of thousands of images accumulated in my private digital archive. A custom-built application continuously processes this material and assembles my current likeness from fragments of previous photographs. The portrait is never fixed. Each new photograph captured by a device connected to the system can immediately alter its structure.
The work examines the moment when a private archive stops being a repository of memory and begins to operate as a system for producing identity. The self is not represented as a stable image, but as a process: assembled, broken apart and rebuilt in real time by algorithmic procedures.
Obsession exposes the mechanisms of digital archives, cloud storage and automated image processing, through which identity is constantly reorganised as data. It asks whether a portrait can still describe a person when it is generated from the debris of their own past images.
The installation has variable dimensions and can be adapted to the available exhibition space.
It uses algorithmic image processing, not generative AI.
