Wind Whispers

“For me, working with AI is a logical continuation of my artistic journey inwards.
I now work purely from my imagination. I no longer need models, a location, or a camera; my technical, art historical, and creative knowledge becomes the creative material itself.”
Boris Eldagson, 01/04/2023

Wind Whispers

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Catarina explanes how she used AI to blend her previous works and create new images for this series, showing you around the exhibition.

Spoken in Portuguese.

Photography, understood as a mechanical means of obtaining/producing images, always depends on technology – understood as camera, printing support and material – that allows for the recording and conservation of the images taken.

If, until the beginning of the 20th century, there were more or less stable periods, after the invention of photographic film and later with the arrival of digital photography, technological development accelerated; not without resistance, given that there were many authors who didn´t accept and challenged the new technologies, accusing them of putting an end to photography.

We were also able to witness the rejection of image editing software, always suspected of manipulation, distortion and adulteration of photographic images... if it is true that time has 'pacified' the reception of digital images, the emergence and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has triggered new manifestations of rejection.

It is in this troubled context that Catarina Camara's work appears, carried out using this new tool – based on her own images – a fact that is assumed without subterfuge. It is known that all eras had their dedicated technologies and that these ended up being assimilated.

Certainly, tradition has enormous weight and habits have no less. It is precisely against the most resistant states of soul that the images produced by the author present themselves without nostalgia, rather provocative, evolving in a confident, personalized and coherent path, defying conventional and historically established understanding and classification.