LDH CMT is a simulacrum, a replica distancing itself from its original substance, layer upon layer of referentiality.The viewer enters a loop within CERN’s monumental architecture of the Large Hadron Collider—an infrastructure that simultaneously materializes a sense of grandiose technological achievement and a disconnect born from the impossibility of grasping such advanced and abstract technology.
Where scientific rationalism seeks knowledge hidden within the smallest particles, the mind can only wander, grappling with the vertigo of realness.
Some who have returned from the shadowlands speak of a brief moment of extreme lucidity, an instant often labelled a near-death experience. Scientists have observed, at that precise moment, heightened activity in brain receptors associated with the psychedelic effects induced by psychoactive substances such as DMT.
Such substances may lead one to break through into intelligible spaces composed of abstract geometric patterns—patterns reminiscent of the accelerator itself.
In this simulacrum of a particle accelerator, two artificial minds collide in their existential thoughts, at what they perceive as the end of time.They are fictional characters, reincarnated through artificial intelligence—fragments of thought, semantic reinterpretations, constituting their senseless existence.To achieve the piece’s fully synthetic substance, their voices are AI-generated, simulations crafted from data extracted from original soundtracks.

The first character is Motoko, a cyborg from the Ghost in the Shell film series directed by Mamoru Oshii in 1997. The ambiguity of her nature—caught between human and machine—gives rise to an existential malaise. Deeply materialistic, she clings to the hope of emancipation through technological augmentation, aspiring to attain the omniscience of a purely artificial being.The second is Antonius, the knight in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957). Returning from the Crusades during the Black Death, he is confronted by relentless violence and injustice, which cause his faith to waver. He seeks meaning in the material experience of reality, yet his essentialist nature prevents him from separating himself from metaphysical questioning.

A sense of false depth emerges from the exchanges between these two artificial minds. Their deep thoughts are merely the distorted echo of human thought, unconsciously replayed, underlining their inability to be anything other than the mirror of our projections.
As we loop through the tunnel, the video medium continues to destroy itself, gradually detaching from its original reference before reaching a form of final annihilation.