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Project description

True Alien is an ongoing visual and virtual reality art project that explores the aesthetics of otherness. At the heart of the project is a smooth, reflective, unidentified object—a digital sculpture that appears in both natural and cultural environments. It looks like a spacecraft. Or a pebble. Or a question. The Alien arrives without warning, asks no questions, and never quite belongs. It simply reflects. Literally and metaphorically.

What happens when something that doesn’t belong suddenly appears in familiar places?

True Alien functions as a visual intervention: a foreign presence that challenges the way we perceive space, identity, and context. It doesn’t demand attention, but it disrupts the ordinary. It mirrors its surroundings without ever becoming part of them. The Alien is not a monster. Nor is it friendly. It is quiet and observant. Perhaps it is us—refracted.

Through a series of photographic interventions and augmented reality experiences, the project plays with the tension between presence and displacement, visibility and reflection, inhabitation and alienation.