About the installation

In partnership with DigiBC

Twenty Twenty-Five is an interactive digital mirror that transforms the viewer’s reflection into a living archive of aerial violence from the year 2025. Composed of 1,000 photographs documenting airstrikes across regions affected by aerial bombing, the work materializes the photographic residues of conflict through the viewer’s own body.

Using a real-time video feed and pixel-color analysis, the installation maps this archive onto the participant’s reflection. From a distance, the images collapse into fields of color that form an abstract silhouette. As viewers move closer, individual pixels expand to reveal the embedded photographs, exposing fragments of landscapes marked by destruction. This shifting visual experience creates a tension between abstraction and recognition, distance and proximity, inviting viewers to confront what often remains unseen.

By revealing how bodies become images and images become data, Twenty Twenty-Five examines the ways mediated violence is documented, circulated, and consumed. Rather than presenting conflict as distant spectacle, the work transforms spectatorship into an embodied encounter, asking viewers to reflect on their relationship to contemporary warfare and the ethics of witnessing. It invites sustained attention to the politics of representation, memory, and responsibility in an increasingly image-saturated world.

About the artist

Ghazal Majidi ^IR/CAis a Vancouver-based new media artist and filmmaker. Working across 3D animation, experimental film, installation, video games, and XR, she creates immersive works exploring memory, identity, and displacement. Her practice has been presented internationally at festivals and galleries, including Currents New Media Festival, MUTEK AE, and Vienna Shorts.

Twenty Twenty-Five by Ghazal Majidi