An interactive message about the inability to distinguish between human and artificial in the digital media age. On the wall is the image of the woman heir to Hadalia, the «future Eva» of the novel Ville de L’Il-Adan and modern virtual divas. She is a copy without an original created from cultural expectations of femininity.
Her body is partly hidden by the dynamic capch: in order to «freeze» the image, the viewer must perform gestures via Kinect, responding to certain unsolved tasks. Every attempt only causes a new cap, turning the interaction into an endless loop of desire and frustration. The installation shows how digital technology simultaneously exposes and closes, promises and denies access, replaces the living entity with its simulation. The «future Eve» here is not a woman, but a phantom that forces the audience to prove its own humanity, remaining unreachable and inexhaustible.
Each question concerns unidentifiable phenomena, but it is not possible for humans to formalize them. These challenges conceal the criticism of algorithmic logic — the desire to reduce complex human states to a binary system of recognition.
