Friend_012
Video, 2026 · Unique
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About the artwork
Friend_012
I get attached to the characters I create. It takes time to make them. Then you choose the ones you feel more connected to, and you start wondering what they feel like, how they move, who they are.
You get very close to them, especially in the dark, when they're right there. You spend time with their particular features, trying to understand how to capture their short-lived presence.
I come back to them often just to watch them be. Their weirdness, their subtle dangerousness, their fragility. They go through a sort of birth, you know. They can only come into existence because someone decides to see them.
After spending so much time together, it feels only natural to call them Friends.
Mindeye
Audio explanation
Listen to Mindeye discuss this work.
Veronika Pell is a multidisciplinary artist who works with generative AI under the name Mindeye, making video art with a strong emphasis on sound, digital image series, and short films, from a position rooted in cinema. She is based in Helsinki, originally from Uzbekistan, and trained in film direction in Moscow before moving into contemporary art and AI-based practice.
Her work operates in the register of dark fairytale with playfulness, absurdity, and theatrical excess. It often centres female figures and treats transformation as a continuous condition. Forms and characters shapeshift, and whole worlds are captured at the moment of both birth and collapse. Some pieces are narrative, others meditative, some closer to horror or surrealism.
She calls her process "growing imagery": a recursive practice in which works feed into each other across extended cycles, and the practice begins to behave like a living system.
Mindeye was named to Leonardo.Ai's Top 50 Women in AI Art (2025) and Top 50 Women in AI Filmmaking (2026), and was profiled in Forbes Australia. Her short film "How to Poison Art" won second place in the Arts & Culture category at the Korean International AI Film Festival and was shortlisted for Runway's Gen:48 and AI Academy Awards. Her work has been shown at VIFF, AI Film Fest Amsterdam, and the Sotheby's Institute of Art, among others.