Infinite recursion - Interactive Videolnstallation
2025
Infinite recursion investigates the poetry of endless reflection, capturing the moment when reality folds into itself through digital recursion. Originating from an experimental encounter with a screen and a camera in the Electromechanical Workshop at Folkwang University of the Arts, this work grew from a simple technical play into a meditation on perception, presence, and infinity.
At its core, Infinite recursion is an installation: a camera is positioned in front of a screen onto which its own live feed is projected, mapped delicately onto a translucent curtain. As visitors step into this space, they become part of an endless loop — their image swallowed and multiplied within the spiral of reflections. Through subtle zooms and shifts in perspective, shapes and patterns emerge, dissolving the boundaries between subject and environment, self and projection.
What begins as a familiar encounter with one’s own reflection soon transforms into a journey into layered spaces — a mise en abyme where each iteration distances the viewer further from the original self, yet draws them deeper into the fabric of the image.
In Infinite Abyss, perception is not static: it is a living, breathing act of co-creation between human and machine, reality and its endless representations.
The first series of images and video experiments were created under the mentorship of Prof. Claudius Lazzeroni and presented during the Rundgang 2021 and the Rungang 2024. The current installation extends this investigation into a participatory, performative experience, inviting each participant to lose themselves — and find themselves anew — within the infinite folds of the screen.
