The Algorithm Will See You Now (2025). Installation view.

The Algorithm Will See You Now

SOFIA ANWARIAN (IR/FR)

The Algorithm Will See You Now (2025) transforms the gallery into a simulated clinic where visitors become patients. The AI system monitors physiological and behavioral data, analyzing each participant and refusing to release them until it detects an anomaly. The experience is both immersive and claustrophobic, turning the familiar language of medical empathy into one of surveillance.

The work critiques the ideology of preemptive diagnostics and the automation of trust in predictive health systems. Anwarian stages an environment where care becomes indistinguishable from control — where the gesture of healing is replaced by the logic of prediction. By forcing audiences into the role of captive patients, she reveals the paradox of our data-driven present: the more we quantify ourselves, the less we are allowed to simply be.

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