Clear Shadows

Catégorie : Photo

  • Me in a tree

    Pixellised photo of myself in front of a tree

    Photography

    A silhouette stretches along the ground, merging the shape of a human body (the artist himself) with the upper branches of a tree. The figure is rooted, yet intangible — made not of bark or flesh, but of digital grain, pixel noise, interference.

    The image stages a strange grafting: man and nature, collapsed into a single outline. But the medium betrays the illusion. What looks like a photograph of connection is corrupted by technological detachment. The digital surface is noisy, sterile, disembodied. The tree, once a symbol of rootedness, becomes just another texture, flattened and encoded.

    This is no longer about belonging to nature — it is about being absorbed by its simulation. The self is pixelated. The soil is gone.

  • No body

    A grid of twenty-eight faces. Smiling, neutral, expectant. None of them exist. These portraits were generated by neural networks before large language models and generative AI tools became household names.

    Each face suggests identity, culture, perhaps memory—but they are empty of history. The work anticipates the silent normalization of synthetic humans in media, politics, and communication. The absence of bodies reinforces their non-existence. No breath. No blood. No background.

    By freezing them in a stark black-and-white aesthetic, the image emphasizes erasure rather than creation: no names, no context, only simulated presence.

    It’s not just a warning—it’s documentation of a threshold. Before the tools exploded, before everyone could make anyone, these ghosts were already smiling.