In a present shaped by artificial intelligence, automation and a belief in technological progress, the origins, authorship and truthfulness of content are becoming increasingly uncertain. In her solo exhibition ghostwriter drowning, Jessica Tille examines media-based processes as carriers of knowledge and perception. In doing so, she asks how language, identity and the body are changing under these conditions.
Starting from ghostwriting and voice cloning, Jessica Tille turns her attention to processes that sever text and voice from a clearly identifiable origin. She is interested in modes of imitation, duplication and simulation, and in their current social implications. An important point of reference is the logic of contemporary AI systems, whose texts are often synthesised from a wide range of sources and in this way blur distinctions between fact and fiction. Further, the exhibition draws on Silicon Valley’s visions for the future, where technological optimisation, economic interests and new forms of belief converge and are actively promoted.
The artist translates this content into an installation comprising video, sound and objects. At its centre is a cloned voice that moves through digital image spaces and standardised forms of language, processes external material and continuously produces further output. ghostwriter drowning examines AI not only as a technical application, but as a cultural condition that is in the process of reshaping perception and identity. The exhibition therefore asks not only how language is produced today, but also what cultural consequences these shifts entail.

Jessica Tille (b. 1993 in Schmalkalden) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She studied Fine Art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she graduated in 2025 as a Meisterschülerin of Prof. Gregor Schneider. During her studies, she was a guest student in the classes of Prof. John Morgan and Prof. Ed Atkins.
In her cross-media installations, Tille investigates the relationship between technology and the body. Through performance, video, sound and objects, she addresses questions of identity, memory and translation, as well as shifts between reality and fiction. In her work, bodies and materials form an open system in which the relationship between organic and technical structures is central.
Her work has been shown, among other places, at the Julia Stoschek Foundation (2025, 2023), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (2024), Kunstmuseum Solingen (2024), E-Werk Luckenwalde (2024), FUSE Zurich (2024) and the BACC Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2023). She has received, among other awards, the Deutschlandstipendium (2023), a DAAD travel grant (2023) and the BEST Project Prize of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2025). Residencies have taken her, among other places, to Artists Unlimited in Bielefeld (2025) and Palazzo Ricci in Montepulciano (2022).