Cali D. Kurlan
Is it Mona Lisa? 2025
Pigment print
8x10 inches
Exhibition Proof
 
This piece begins with a simple Google search for "Mona Lisa" and ends in pure chaos. Hundreds of versions appear, glitched, cropped, AI remixed, memeified. t’s less about Da Vinci and more about thealgorithm’s carnival of duplicates, knockoffs, and misremembered icons. By presenting the screenshotitself as the artwork, I’m turning the search engine into both curator and trickster. The work pokes at whatwe call “original” in a world where everything is already spectacle. It’s a digital funhouse mirror, quietlyabsurd, strangely accurate, and a reminder that even Mona Lisa has no control over her own imageanymore.