LAYLAT - Looking at you looking at them

AI women portraits.

This collection of AI-generated video portraits presents women gazing, thinking and looking directly at the viewer, holding their gaze. There is no distraction, no narrative—only the act of looking and being looked at and the simple exchange shifts the usual dynamic of power, challenging passive spectatorship and reframing the relationship between subject and observer.

At its core, this project is about presence. These women do not exist, yet their gaze insists on being seen, on being remembered. LOOKING AT YOU LOOKING AT THEM functions as an AI-generated archive—an act of resistance against the historical erasure of women’s images, reinforcing their place in collective memory.

AI often evokes a sense of distance or strangeness, but here, it becomes a tool for connection. These portraits ask: Can we empathize with something artificial? Can an image created by a machine still hold emotional weight? In this confrontation between viewer and subject, human and non-human, the boundaries blur—challenging us to reconsider how we see, remember, and relate to one another.

The title has been inspired from the introduction of the article Society of the Psyop by Trevor Paglen