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Ananke: A Liturgy, 2026
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Ananke: A Liturgy, 2026

Six-screen CAPTCHA labyrinth about capitalism, power and restricted perspective

Based in Barcelona, Spain · From Cairo, Egypt

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This is a walk-through screen environment rather than a timed music performance. Fragmented paintings, ASCII text, glitch processing and generative particles shift across six displays as visitors search for hidden words and enter them through a CAPTCHA interface.

More about Ananke: A Liturgy, 2026

Malak Yahia is a Cairo-born graphic and motion designer based in Barcelona who graduated from IED Barcelona's Motion Graphics programme in 2026. Ananke began as her research-led final thesis, using the labyrinth's political history to connect canonical painting, bureaucratic language and contemporary systems of control.

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