Who is behind the digital gaze?

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In AI-generated imagery, characters no longer emerge from an artist mind or lived experience, but from the convergence of millions of images, faces and visual memories encoded into data. Their eyes meet ours without ever having seen the world.

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The LOOK WHO’S LOOKING exhibition brings together works by 10 international artists who investigate the gaze as a threshold between human subjectivity and algorithmic construction. In these works, the eyes do not reveal an individual soul, but a fragmented singularity shaped by statistical inference and synthetic imagination.

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When we encounter a gaze created by artificial intelligence, we are facing a visual echo of countless digitized anonymous observers. The question is not whether the machine looks at us, but who (or what) returns our gaze: the artist, the dataset, the cultural biases embedded in images, or ourselves reflected through an algorithmic mirror?

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These artificial eyes do not view the world; they show it. What passes through them is redistributed, transformed and sent back to us as images. Rather than asking whether AI can possess a soul, the exhibition asks what becomes of our images, desires, and memories once they enter the eyes of the machine?