A shadow is cast, and nothing is there (2025)

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A shadow is cast, and nothing is there (2025) Installation, variable dimensions. Color, sound. 18 minutes, looped.

In an ongoing exchange with the artist, a popular AI image generator model is led to expose and elaborate on its hidden inner workings. The result is a lucid and unexpectedly poetic monologue that explores the edges, gaps and tensions between human ways of seeing and of making images - physical processes carrying direct traces of the world, driven by desire - and those of the AI model - detached, data-driven, automatic.

By flipping the point of view and giving the machine agency to speak, the work unfolds an urgent reflection on the production and experience of images in the contemporary, as well as on the timeless, deeply human need to make sense of the world by making images of it. Inherently human activities - looking at the world and trying to grasp it by representing it - are described, discussed and re-defined from the non-human perspective of the AI model. Languages and modes of “making sense” - human and machinic, affective and algorithmic - overlap and collide, revealing both the possibilities and the limits of translation between them.