03 / 2026
Facing Vincent
Each self-portrait is treated as a witness, corrected by the others.
Facing Vincent does not try to reveal the true face of Van Gogh. It asks a stranger question: what face appears when the self-portraits are allowed to correct one another?
Each painting is treated as a witness rather than an illustration. No single portrait is trusted completely. The other portraits form a pressure around it.
The work moves between art history, face recognition, painterly deformation and digital archaeology. The point is not certainty. The point is whether a trace can become visible without pretending to be final.
method
Self-portraits are aligned, compared and normalized through leave-one-out consensus tests, landmark analysis and mesh-based visualisation.
output
- video installation
- forensic image series
- interactive witness interface
- research publication
next project
One Movement
→