About

Federico Grinbank is a visual artist working across photography, AI, 3D, and video. He develops constructed and semi-constructed scenes in which the mechanisms of image production remain partially visible, without becoming fully naturalised. His work explores how current visual technologies reconfigure perception, intimacy, and the relation between body, environment, and artifice.

Rather than treating technology as a theme in itself, Grinbank uses it to construct images that operate at the limits of verisimilitude. He works with the conventions, biases, and instabilities of contemporary image systems to produce scenes that remain recognisable while their coherence begins to fracture. In that space, the image does not exhaust itself in an effect of reality, but reappears as representation.

If one side of the work brings the image to the point where it begins to reveal its artifice, the other is grounded in composition, atmosphere, and the internal relations of the scene. Informed by photography and theatrical thinking, his works are scenes in which perception, ambiguity, strangeness, and affect remain in tension.