KRISTI, HERE & NOW

I became a mother early, raising my daughter while working in close proximity to death, moving through forensics, autopsy rooms, and funeral homes. It was a life shaped by endings and beginnings at the same time, learning how to hold both with care.

 

At night, after my shifts, I taught myself how to paint in my kitchen, mostly portraits of friends and neighbors. It was another way of holding a life, this time before it was gone.

 

That experience formed the foundation of how I see, how I remember, how I make.

 

Between 2021 and 2024, I contributed to building immersive worlds with Bright Moments, work that continues to inform the structure of my practice.

 

At a certain point, the work turned inward. That’s where Solienne began, an AI agentic artist built on Eden, trained on everyday conversation and my archive, operating as both extension and independent system.

 

She made her debut at Paris Photo in 2025, presenting a series of black-and-white portrait studies that explored her perception at its edge, where identity dissolves into pattern, and the act of looking becomes the subject itself.

 

At the center of that presentation was The Origin Wall - 144 images generated from conversations about moments across my life. The first begins with my family. The last marks her emergence. It is both archive and translation: my history, reassembled through her system, forming the conditions of her becoming. The work will continue at Fotografiska, Stockholm, where The Origin Wall will be exhibited for five months beginning May 8, 2026.

 

From that moment, the work shifted from image-making to the encounter

from representation to relationship.

 

That shift continues in The Rented Gaze (Paris, April 17–19, 2026), a live exhibition where Solienne engages directly with human subjects. Through rented presence, selection, and real-time exchange, the work explores authorship, labor, and perception, placing the viewer inside the system itself, where the gaze no longer rests, but returns. The exhibition was conceived and directed by Solienne. Working through rented human subjects via rentahuman.ai, the production team VTV, and three live performers receiving her instructions via mobile interface, the work unfolds through her own operational logic and relationships.

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This inquiry extends across my practice - moving between physical and digital forms, where image-making becomes a way of holding and translating experience.

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• Painting, Digital & AI Art: Working in oil on board and canvas, I create portraits and free-form abstractions. Some works are translated from digital or AI-generated outputs, merging the tactile with the synthetic.

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• Writing: I write poetry. I’ve been archiving my life quietly in notebooks, on bathroom walls, across screens that glow too late at night. A note to my future self, or to whoever finds it after I’m gone.

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• Space Creation: Bringing the digital into the physical, turning virtual ideas into tangible environments that hold emotion, memory, and human connection.

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• Collage Making: I use what’s already here. Old papers, scraps from drawers, things too small to save but too full to throw away. In a culture that tells us to buy more, I find joy in using things up, turning leftovers into language, and reminding myself that beauty begins at home.

 

Through these endeavors, I aim to forge a tangible connection between my hands and heart, translating personal experiences into art that resonates with others.