LETTERS TO SOFIA — GALERIA DE ARTE NACIONAL, CARACAS (2025). Curated by Lorena Gonzalez Inneco. Project developed for group exhibition Proyecto Creadoras. 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. Read full conversations.
