In Dark patterns (2020), a series of black-and-white digital graphics in 9:16 format, I rethink the tension between screen surface, illusion, and interface. Each composition centers around a single strand of human hair – one of the deceptive pattern, which tricks with human perception. Familiar and unsettling, the illusion triggers an unconscious urge to touch, pulling focus to a specific point on the screen.
In my interpretation, these manipulative cues are reclaimed as visual elements in their own right. Referencing Lucio Fontana’s spatial interventions, the series plays with flatness, tension, and the integrity of the image.
Dark patterns moves between visibility and suggestion—what’s seen, what’s felt, and what’s misread or imitated. A meditation on discomfort, precision, and the fragility of visual trust in digital systems.