Silicon Geologies

 

What kind of memory emerges when the archive is no longer limited to preserving, but generates? What happens when landscape begins to behave like a database? Today, layers of rock and sediment appear overlaid by other forms of accumulation: image archives, datasets, and predictive models operating as invisible yet active strata.

The project is situated at the contemporary crossroads between technology and image. I am interested in pushing the promises of progress and efficiency in technological mediation to a point where they begin to produce their opposite.

Created with artificial intelligence, the work focuses on zones of instability, where the image’s apparent coherence begins to fracture and reveal the conditions of its construction. Through a meticulous process combining prompts and photo-editing software, I develop each area of the image until the density of information alters its balance. The fragment then acquires a relative autonomy, as if it could inaugurate its own material, tactile, and uncertain logic.

Rather than disappearing behind an illusion of transparency, each piece appears as a dynamic fragment, open to reinterpretation, revealing the operations that organize it. The same gesture may repeat elsewhere in the image or across the series, producing internal echoes and drifts. In that displacement, the human figure appears as a topographic accident or scenic remnant, while the environment acquires an active presence.

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