LETTERS TO SOFIA — Multimedia installation that explores the subtle line between reality and fiction in the digital age. It originates from a social experiment conducted in 2023, where Sofía, a fictional profile created with AI was generated on the dating app Tinder. She maintained 147 conversations. Only 4 users questioned the authenticity of the profile. The experiment and its results fuel this installation: the narratives of these conversations comprise the central audio on display. Sofía is not real, but she embodies fragments of all of us: data and pixels anchored in humanity. Real or fake, she provided comfort and companionship, but the experiment raises unsettling questions: did users believe Sofía was real, or, aware of her falsehood, did they accept interacting with a lie? Are we more connected and more alone than ever? Ir artificial more real than ever? The conversations reveal profound themes: beauty, equality, loneliness, the desire for love, and the conception of women in society. Is Sofía an ideal, an echo of the desires of others? The installation presents two perspectives: in the digital realm, Sofía is changeable and anonymous, a figure who observes from above, supreme and absolute. In the physical realm, she is abstract, empty, a “green-screen” waiting to be filled, or a virgin, who hides all her secrets behind a veil.
Beside the sculpture, a tower of paper is exhibited, representing the infinity of conversations carried out, indicating the names of the participants, and upon it, a reliquary, which guards Sofía’s face, accompanied by a glass slipper, because at the end of the day, that is what they desire: another Cinderella.
