SELFIES FROM MY AMYGDALA

work in progress (2022 – ongoing) 

AI-generated images (Stable Diffusion, Paint Hua and Invoke AI), installation (wallpaper and prints, Hahnemühle Photorag)

In the limbic system of our brain, the amygdala is responsible for emotionally evaluating all perceptions and then triggering a reaction. In this process, the amygdala controls the emotion fear and the sex drive.

If they could photograph themselves, they would send the following selfies to Freud with the words: ‘Dear Sigmund, there was something to your theory of Eros & Thanatos. But not as you imagined it.’