Tiresias
Single channel video
3:35 min
Tiresia is a meditation on blindness, intended as spiritual blindness and blindness in lack of foresight, echoing AI as recurrent and recursive mirror. In Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, known for their clairvoyance and prophecies that spanned seven generations. Tiresias was both a man and a woman, and is presented throughout literature as a complex liminal figure, mediating in the "in between": humankind and the gods, blind and seeing, present and future, this world and the Underworld.
The video imagines an inner monologue of Tiresias, who can no longer see in the dark because even the dark is gone, replaced by recursion, by self-replication, by an infinite feedback loop of mirrored images.This space is an allegory for our contemporary condition. As we experience a shift in visual paradigm, we also experience a need for spiritual awakening. In the work, blindness is no longer only the condition of not seeing, but the condition of being overwhelmed by infinite reflection: an age where even darkness is no longer to be seen, because the void itself fills with an endless mirror.
What once was darkness, a space of mystery, concealment, and prophecy, is gone. The void itself has been colonized by reflection, filled with the noise of prediction, saturated by images that endlessly reproduce themselves. Here blindness takes on a new meaning. It is not the absence of sight, but its saturation. To be seen everywhere, by everyone, by everything, is another form of blindness: a blindness produced by hypervisibility. Under algorithmic vision, the eye cannot rest. Every gesture is mapped, every trace recorded, every possibility reduced to data. Visibility becomes overexposure. Meaning bleeds out into repetition.
Today, artificial intelligence presents itself as an oracle, offering predictions and patterns as though it could pierce the future. Yet this prediction is false foresight: not the opening of possibility but the narrowing of it, a repetition of what already exists. What AI sees is only the past disguised as the future, and what it offers is not prophecy but closure. Seeing through the machine is no longer seeing. The hypervisibility of AI resolution is artificial light that blinds.
The video reflects on visibility and invisibility within this context. To be seen by the machine is to be overexposed, hyper-visible, trapped in endless patterns.
Yet, the unpredictable, the uncertain, the not-yet-imagined, remains invisible, escaping prediction. Blindness, in this sense, becomes not a lack but a form of resistance, a refusal of false clarity.
The shifting, doubled figure of Tiresias embodies this contradiction: a prophet who cannot see, a seer who no longer prophesies. By inhabiting both male and female, darkness and light, blindness and vision, Tiresias becomes the emblem of a world caught between too much seeing and not enough seeing. At the end of the monologue, it's no longer clear if the voice is that of Tiresias, or of an AI.
In Tiresia, the void is not empty but recursive. Every surface reflects back another, until depth collapses and foresight dissolves. The work stages the impossibility of looking forward when the horizon has been flattened into repetition. Ultimately, Tiresia is not an oracle but a warning. It asks whether we can reimagine blindness as another kind of vision that can embrace uncertainty, that acknowledges the limits of prediction, and that holds space for what we cannot yet see. Here, vision is consumed by its own abundance, and only by reclaiming invisibility and uncertainty is it possible to escape the reflective "blind stare".
The video imagines an inner monologue of Tiresias, who can no longer see in the dark because even the dark is gone, replaced by recursion, by self-replication, by an infinite feedback loop of mirrored images.This space is an allegory for our contemporary condition. As we experience a shift in visual paradigm, we also experience a need for spiritual awakening. In the work, blindness is no longer only the condition of not seeing, but the condition of being overwhelmed by infinite reflection: an age where even darkness is no longer to be seen, because the void itself fills with an endless mirror.
What once was darkness, a space of mystery, concealment, and prophecy, is gone. The void itself has been colonized by reflection, filled with the noise of prediction, saturated by images that endlessly reproduce themselves. Here blindness takes on a new meaning. It is not the absence of sight, but its saturation. To be seen everywhere, by everyone, by everything, is another form of blindness: a blindness produced by hypervisibility. Under algorithmic vision, the eye cannot rest. Every gesture is mapped, every trace recorded, every possibility reduced to data. Visibility becomes overexposure. Meaning bleeds out into repetition.
Today, artificial intelligence presents itself as an oracle, offering predictions and patterns as though it could pierce the future. Yet this prediction is false foresight: not the opening of possibility but the narrowing of it, a repetition of what already exists. What AI sees is only the past disguised as the future, and what it offers is not prophecy but closure. Seeing through the machine is no longer seeing. The hypervisibility of AI resolution is artificial light that blinds.
The video reflects on visibility and invisibility within this context. To be seen by the machine is to be overexposed, hyper-visible, trapped in endless patterns.
Yet, the unpredictable, the uncertain, the not-yet-imagined, remains invisible, escaping prediction. Blindness, in this sense, becomes not a lack but a form of resistance, a refusal of false clarity.
The shifting, doubled figure of Tiresias embodies this contradiction: a prophet who cannot see, a seer who no longer prophesies. By inhabiting both male and female, darkness and light, blindness and vision, Tiresias becomes the emblem of a world caught between too much seeing and not enough seeing. At the end of the monologue, it's no longer clear if the voice is that of Tiresias, or of an AI.
In Tiresia, the void is not empty but recursive. Every surface reflects back another, until depth collapses and foresight dissolves. The work stages the impossibility of looking forward when the horizon has been flattened into repetition. Ultimately, Tiresia is not an oracle but a warning. It asks whether we can reimagine blindness as another kind of vision that can embrace uncertainty, that acknowledges the limits of prediction, and that holds space for what we cannot yet see. Here, vision is consumed by its own abundance, and only by reclaiming invisibility and uncertainty is it possible to escape the reflective "blind stare".
