Exhibition Magazine commissioned this series after discovering X Machina Flora, the generative art practice of VTOPYA co-founder Yasmin Gross. The brief was to take the signature language of her work into a new editorial story, fully generated with AI.

The series imagines a generation that sees the world through screens. Each portrait shows a figure crowned with vintage monitors, camcorders and viewfinders that branch out from the head like sculptural headpieces. Eyes appear inside the screens instead of behind them. Some are enlarged, some are repeated or cut into pieces, and some show distant landscapes and city lights. All around them, the machines seem to multiply. The palette stays warm and analog, with cream, sand, taupe and deep black, and a grain that recalls printed fashion editorials of the late 1990s.

The series asks what happens to identity when every glance is recorded, mirrored and broadcast. It shows how a…