The question We choose images, or images choose us?

This project investigates how, within an image-saturated and algorithmically driven visual environment, images can trigger judgement, bias, and habitual responses before they are fully understood.

Rather than focusing on identity itself, the project examines the mechanisms through which judgement is produced—specifically, how visual understanding is reconfigured when the human face is treated as information rather than as a subject.

The work consists of a long-format poster and a short video, both derived from a single face used as the sole visual source. Through processes of deconstruction, recomposition, and repetition, the face is transformed from a coherent individual image into a set of visual units that can be read, compared, and ordered.

By placing time-based and spatial forms side by side, the project reveals how, within contemporary visual systems, judgement often precedes understanding, and how bias and stereotype emerge not as explicit positions, but as by-products of image encoding, organisation, and circulation.