2026 - INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTs x EROTIC REVIEW
It Girl
Become more beautiful than the highest 4K Quality CGI. Receiving instructions from a faceless girl in a hotel room, a girl is promised perfect understanding in exchange for perfect erasure. Voices guide her in unbinding her own body, releasing each part with gratitude as her love for her double grows. Algorithmic mirroring and romantic merging manifest through found subliminals, empirical ‘AI safety’ studies, physical presence and vocal distortion.
A collaboration with Raw2.2.
UK premiere at The Body: Real/Digital/Imagined, curated by Lucy Roeber for the Erotic Review at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Loop versions shown at Side Quest for the Real at FTW Geneva and OpenLAB at Medialab Matadero.
SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO, 8:16 mins
WRITTEN BY ALEX QUICHO
DIRECTED BY RAW2.2
SOUND artist · Raw2.2 ☾ visual effects artist · RAW2.2 ☾ Camera Operations · Willian Zou, Kaiyan Cheung ☾ Lighting · Willian Zou ☾ Camera Assistants · Deming Huang, Jiahao Chen
2025 - GOLDSMITHS CCA
Twin
Scenes of rivalry and replication show how the desire to merge is always shadowed by the threat of differentiation. From conversational AIs to cinematic doppelgangers, the double becomes a favourite machine for feeling: a system through which intimacy and alienation are jointly produced, accelerated, and aestheticised.
Commissioned as part of the public programming for Lawrence Lek: Life Before Automation, curated by Natasha Hoare, at Goldsmiths CCA.
