American Bimbo (2024)

Single-channel video loop. Telescopic flag pole, AI generated video, dvr rear view mirror, wall mounted monitor, camera, car decal, cable ties.

American Bimbo consists of an AI-generated video loop presented through a layered feedback system of cameras and screens. The rear-view mirror simultaneously displays a live feed of the gallery space alongside the AI-generated video playing on a monitor elsewhere in the room. As viewers navigate these layers of mediation, they occasionally find themselves reflected within the work, captured by the live feed and folded into its visual logic. This implicates them within the system of surveillance, reflection, and control.

The AI-generated imagery draws heavily from the visual codes of 1980s Americana; hyper-feminised blonde bombshells astride motorcycles, bathed in street-light, a synthetic vision of desire that already carries the grain of its own artificiality. By further degrading these images through live camera feeds, the work introduces a kind of technological erosion, echoing a decaying cultural memory. The result evokes a fading vision of American glamour, glimpsed as if through a rear-view mirror, simultaneously seductive and hollow, nostalgic and collapsing.

From group show Synecdoche, Synecdoche, Synecdoche at Broedplaats Zeeburgerdijk with Nanna Egelund, Tom Dulou, Emre Özakat, Hippolyte Godest.