Disturbances, noises and malfeasances

The project builds a multilayered dialogue between man and artificial intelligence, exploring the fragile and hybrid nature of today’s self. As technology becomes an instrument of self-observation and self-awareness, where the border runs between who we are and how we are interpreted from outside — including digital views. In the Hahaeva project, error is not a failure, but a method. It is in breakdowns, distortions, and misunderstandings that a new vision of itself — touching, vulnerable, and genuine — is born.

In his series of paintings and graphics, Hahaev turns to the poetics of algorithmic errors and failures, integrating scripts of correspondence with the ChatGPT language model into the compositions of the scripts, and neurally processed photos from the personal archive. I.E. acts not so much as an instrument, but as a partner in the game, an interviewer, a mirror with its own distortions. It is in these distortions that a new poet — sensitive, vulnerable, flickering — is born.

The exhibition is built around three paintings in the series «Are you?», where a repeated phrase brings back to the viewer a question that is increasingly sounding in the digital age: who is hiding behind the screen, in the data, in the images that come from our requests? How can you describe yourself when the form of the story has lost its resilience?

A painting series called Am I? , in which the artist refers to the family archive of children’s photographs, is available around these works. By passing images through neuronets, it allows the algorithm to interpret and distort memories, turning glitches and malfunctions into metaphors for self-thinking — with its mistakes, gaps, and unspeakability.

There are also images of plants, insects, and animals that grow from the depths of memory. These organic motives violate the cold logic of artificial aesthetics by returning live breath and body to the image.

The Graphic Monochromic Series «Consequence of Malfunction» combines two lines: correspondence money and visual elements. The figures that go through the algorithms and return to the artist’s hand are similar to the number paintings, which are almost a child’s game that hides the deep process of interpreting itself. Where do I end up and the program starts? Where is the error, the glitch, and where is the true trail?

The project presents a series of paintings that refer to the problems of the incompleteness and fragmentation of the image, as well as to the exploration of concepts such as untruth and emptiness.

Incompleteness is in fact an attempt to transmit the whole through incomplete parts. The materiality of the empty and unfinished work will make it possible to highlight the volume of the artist ' s speech. And no matter how twisted this Tumbler is, there will be no complete silence in modern painting, even if the author is completely absent.

Painting, which exists in its incomplete, unsaid form, allows the viewer to complete the image in his own imagination. Using incompleteness as a reception, additional personal meanings are identified in the context of over-saturated visual data and the enormous variability in the meanings of existing reality. Missions and gaps in the painting maximize the effect of conciseness, conciseness, aphoristicity, limiting the thought to the limit of concentrate.