At The Edge Of Recognition

@babka_robot
Olya Golovko | Riga, Latvia
June 2025

Olya Golovko is a multidisciplinary artist based in Riga, Latvia, primarily working with AI-generated imagery as a tool for visual storytelling, exploring the creative potential of neural networks. She treats the AI as an unstable mirror that reflects fragments of memories and dreams back to us in altered forms.

Her visual world is populated by conjured beings that exist at the edge of recognition. The imagery invites us into futuristic fairy tale, both familiar and dislocated, myths passed through circuits.

There’s a spectral elegance in her work, a quiet surrealism that recalls the dream logic of Toyen’s paintings, reimagined through machine vision. The results are both intimate and otherworldly,images that seem to breathe with their own strange rhythm, caught somewhere between the organic and the synthetic, the human and the post-human.

by @perfectagala