ANanke: The arc of six screens
Malak Yahia
IED Istituto Europeo Di Design Barcelona
Ananke is a six-screen digital installation that examines how contemporary capitalism operates as a labyrinth — a structure designed to restrict perspective while presenting that restriction as the natural order of things. Six Western canonical paintings are recomposed through glitch aesthetics, ASCII typography, and procedural particle animation. Each screen contains a hidden word the viewer must find and enter into a CAPTCHA interface to proceed. When all six are answered, everything falls. From the debris, one phrase assembles across all six screens. فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ — so where are you going. The argument is not new. The labyrinth has existed for four thousand years. The critique of power has been named for centuries. This project does not reveal something hidden. It returns something forgotten. Ananke has been selected to be presented as a large-scale installation at MIRA Festival Barcelona, November 2026. Thesis project by Malak Yahia. IED Barcelona, 4th Year Motion Design.