Veil of Appearance is an interactive digital installation that explores visibility, concealment, and control within contemporary digital culture. The project examines how images are selected, prioritised, obscured, and removed by systems whose internal logic remains largely invisible to their users.

The work is inspired by the Tarot archetype of The High Priestess, traditionally positioned before a veil separating the visible world from hidden knowledge. Here, the veil becomes a metaphor for the concealed mechanisms of digital platforms and algorithmic systems.

Visitors participate by scanning a QR code and submitting an image through a web-based interface. Their image enters an evolving digital composition, where it may be enlarged, layered, displaced, partially hidden, or gradually removed from view.

Once submitted, the image is no longer controlled by the participant. It becomes data within a system that determines its position, duration, and visibility. Participation therefore creates a tension between access and loss of agency.

Layered transparent plexiglass forms a physical barrier between the viewer and the screen, refracting and partially obstructing the image. The material and digital layers operate together as parallel forms of concealment.

Veil of Appearance asks who controls the conditions under which something becomes visible. The work transforms the screen from a neutral window into a surface of selection, hierarchy, and temporary appearance.