Installation documentation
Installation documentation
Installation documentation
Installation documentation
Installation documentation
Installation documentation

was this you?

2025

Single-channel video, projection, participatory synthetic video engine, site specific.

Dimensions variable

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.

Collaborators

Composition: Jing Jie Lim

Presentations

January 2026 (Singapore Art Week) Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter, Singapore 99 Years exhibition organized by Digital Art Week Asia 2026, curated by Warren Wee

Press mentions

Press mentions ArtReview A Plus Singapore