Title: Interface – Downstairs
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
Interface explores the relationship between observation and thought, and considers how the exchange between the two might be visualized. Developed in relation to early discussions around artificial intelligence, the work reflects on attempts to model and clarify the often complex processes through which reality is perceived and understood.

The project also engages with the history of photography and its claim to document reality. By using photography to suggest perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the work challenges ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, proposing instead an experience of the world that is subjective, composite, and constructed.