Me vs. You explores intimacy in a world monitored by AI technologies. In this video installation, footage from a wrestling match between the artists is fed through a generative AI pipeline to highlight the system's inability to interpret human interactions. The work contrasts the cold precision of AI networks with the blurred boundaries of human conflict and connection.

At the core of the piece is a wrestling match captured and analysed by an AI machine vision system. This depth-mapping technology is designed to separate subjects, but here the close contact between the fighters confuses the AI model. When these greyscale depth maps are fed forward into a generative video pipeline, the boundaries of the two entities become blurred. Instead of a straightforward wrestling match, the generated video resists a clear interpretation, shifting fluidly between aggression and tenderness, conflict and intimacy. The installation features two screens: the lower screen reveals the black-and-white machine vision while the upper screen presents the AI’s ambiguous reconstruction.

The two-channel projection was featured in the Francis Bacon / Henry Moore gallery of Tate Britain. It’s directly in conversation with Bacon’s Triptych August 1972 which also plays with ambiguous portrayals of entangled wrestling bodies. Coincidentally, both works take inspiration from Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic studies of male wrestlers in motion, questioning how bodies—and their relationships—are captured, interpreted, and misread.