was this you?

Lying in a bed that is not quite their own, the viewer becomes the protagonist of an Internet nightmare. New sign-in from unknown device, suspicious activity detected, was this you? — a familiar grammar of digital anxiety.

Above the bed, a large projection shows surveillance-style footage: a deepfaked synthetic imagery of the artist appears in scenes of crimes she did not commit, moving through a world that looks real enough to be believed.

was this you? stages the moment when your digital self starts acting beyond you. The installation borrows the intimacy of the bedroom — a site of scrolling, secrets, and sleepless spirals — and turning it into a theatre for a post-truth identity crisis. The viewer watches, prone and vulnerable, as interfaces and images quietly renegotiate who they are.

The work extends ongoing questions in the artist’s practice about how a person’s physical body is split, copied, and remade into digital versions of themselves.

was this you? situates itself amid the rise of deepfakes and non-consensual synthetic imagery, particularly their weaponisation against women as a form of technology-facilitated gender-based violence — infrastructures for automating humiliation, punishment, and control at scale.

The installation traces an emotional arc from shock and violation to shame, anxiety, and hyper-vigilance. Losing access to an account, or watching a fabricated version of yourself circulate, is a digital death: there is no body to bury, only the unnerving afterlife of your photos, your voice, your identity, a ghost now moving without you and beyond your control.