Original artwork description:

These portraits of young men are made with artificial intelligence. They guys shown do not exist, they are purely fictional, generated with midjourney and other AI programs.

I printed those AI-generated photos on photo paper and glued them on a wodden frame, afterwards I apply silver spray paint and resin. The resin and the photo paper react and give it a red colour and this bubbly surface, blurring the original photos, creating a new matrix, a veil-like new surface.

So AI-generated photos and resin become a new one, a modern collage.

The boys in the photos, who originally seemed really real, thus disappear behind a layer of real synthetic resin - which creates a distance, a distance to the artificial projection surfaces, to the unreal, to the longing for AI-generated objects. They disappear again, the unattainable thus become real again, the real synthetic resin exposes their artificial character, removes them from all real projections. And us with our insatiable demands, which only unreal persons can fulfill.

So don't fall in love!

Materials used:

photo, resin, spray paint

Tags:

#portrait #pop art #ai #gay art #desires #artificial intelligence #queer art #jeune homme #lgbtqia #algorithmic art #midjourney #ai art