Visions

VISIONS is an investigation of false memory carried out through artificial intelligence — how a machine sees, understands, and reimagines, and how the line between what we remember and what we invent is quietly redrawn in an age of synthetic images.

The work draws on a year-long collaboration between Mammadov and London-based curator Farah Piriye Coene, who together distilled a curated dataset of public-domain artworks from across centuries of art history. Custom software analyzes each painting in real time, generating new visual states that must pass the system's stylistic test before they appear. Old masters dissolve into one another. Captions, code, and wireframe traces flicker at the edges as the machine narrates its own act of seeing.

In the mirrored geometry of the infinity room, that act is multiplied to no horizon — the viewer stands inside an AI's continuous, self-correcting recollection. VISIONS externalizes the quiet drift of memory we all live with: the way a face, a painting, a place quietly reshape themselves each time we recall them.