Unqueering the Archive is an ongoing research project and multimedia installation about the social implications of imaging technologies.
AI-generated images of gay couples from previous decades are slowly erased by a motor-controlled violet laser. Rather than light producing an image, the work uses light to remove one, inverting the traditional idea of the light-sensitive surface. Through this gradual erasure, the project reflects on the ability of generated images to destabilize photographic archives, as well as on a broader shift in imaging technologies in which light is increasingly displaced from direct contact with image-making surfaces toward indirect systems such as fiber-optic networks and solar power.