Aziza Kadyri’s AI Suzani Series: Self-exoticisation Archives (2023­—ongoing) interrogates the intersections of heritage, identity, and algorithmic bias. Drawing on the traditional Central Asian practice of Suzani embroidery — historically produced in communal, intergenerational contexts — Kadyri trains AI systems on its ornamental patterns to generate new, hybridised designs. These motifs are then projected back onto her own image, producing self-portraits that oscillate between ornamentation and erasure. By deliberately engaging in an act of “self-exoticisation,” Kadyri reclaims the aesthetic codes through which her cultural identity has often been mediated, critiquing both orientalist framing and the reductive tendencies of generative datasets. The resulting works blur boundaries between textile, portraiture, and machine vision, situating personal memory within a wider discourse on visibility, displacement, and cultural commodification.