Federica RodellaFRo · Turin
Turin
mirror: waiting for input

In the room the strips take whoever stands in front of the work. Here, through your camera. Nothing is recorded.

About this room

Try to isolate a thought that is entirely yours. You cannot: there is no pure gaze left. The merging everyone speaks of in the future tense has already happened — we think with the machine and it thinks with us.

These works are made of that condition: flesh and cables, landscapes that bleed data. Each carries a real command as its title and a line from an 1865 dream as its caption. The mirrored strips never grant the whole work: they return fragments of the image and of whoever is looking. There is no outside point of view anymore.

The seventeen works

Collage, generative AI, post-production, 2026. Three works add augmented reality.

No.TitleSupportCaption
01TokenMirrored panel“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.
02PromptMirrored panelAnd now, who am I? I will remember, if I can.
03ArtifactMirrored panelIt would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig.
04Fine-tuningMirrored panelI know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
05Training SetMirrored panel“I don't much care where—” “Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
06Content FilterMirrored panelI only wish I had such eyes. To be able to see Nobody!
07Machines Are DreamingMirrored panelWhy, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!
08Who in the World Am I?Mirrored panelBut if I'm not the same, the next question is: who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!
09Neural NetworkFine art printWe put a white one in by mistake.
10Vision ModelMirrored panelAnd if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?
11Latent SpaceMirrored panelDown, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?
12Fleshscape — moving panel IMoving panelAn anatomy that has become a country.
13Fleshscape — moving panel IIMoving panelA road of colour running through it.
DiffusioneMirrored panel + augmented realityI shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
InterpolazioneMirrored panel + augmented realityOh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk long enough.
SeedMirrored panel + augmented realityIt's a great huge game of chess that's being played — all over the world — if this is the world at all.
JailbreakMirrored panelI can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
Model CollapseMirrored panelIt might end, you know, in my going out altogether, like a candle.
mOTHERMirrored panelNow, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all.
Diptych — Fleshscape, moving panels

An anatomy that has become a country; a road of colour running through it.

Exhibited
YearTitleVenueNote
SoonWonderland.exePiazza San Carlo, TurinComing soon
2026Wonderland.exe — Oltre il sognoPalazzo d'Oria, Ciriè (Turin)Solo room · 9 July — 2 August · curated by Gianluca Violino