Americanized

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Dates

2025 - Ongoing
Author

Diana Salomon
Topics Archive, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Documentary

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Americanized is a photographic project using AI-assisted erasure to remove figures from domestic interiors. Working from personal archives, it explores assimilation, authorship, and how images flatten individuality through absence.

Working from scanned family photographs, Americanized removes the central figure and shifts attention to what remains: furniture, objects, stains, celebrations, and gaps. These spaces become quiet stand-ins for the people who once occupied them, revealing how identity is formed through repetition, environment, and what is left unspoken. Presented as photographs and installations, the work treats the domestic interior as both evidence and inheritance—an archive shaped as much by absence as by presence.

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A table left behind after a family gathering. What remains suggests presence through absence, where routine and ritual outlast the people who once occupied the space.

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A domestic interior organized for use but momentarily empty. The image reflects how family life is structured around objects, order, and repetition.

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A partial view of a living space marked by use and wear. The photograph holds traces of memory without revealing who occupied it.

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An interior scene where furniture and objects act as stand-ins for human presence, emphasizing the quiet role domestic spaces play in shaping identity.

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A birthday celebration photographed after the moment has passed. The image questions what is remembered versus what is assumed within inherited narratives.

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Archival family photographs are suspended and projected within the space, allowing memory to exist as something fragmented, layered, and unresolved.