Portraits of women confined in crumbling and melting times Print

‘Portraits of women confined in crumbling and melting times’ is a project exploring the social status of women in an unfortunate 21st century. An artificial intelligence is trained on stereotypical depictions of women (mainstream, objectified, banal) carefully selected by the artist. These illustrations of popular culture depict a perfect cliched world where even the shadows are beautiful and bright colours. A biased reality in which women become weak objects of desire, at the centre of violence, discrimitation and lack of opportunities. It is a world that, although vibrant with colours, describes a tragic ‘social distancing’ that is as fierce as the one we are experiencing nowadays with the outbreak of Covid 19. This dataset of images is used by the machine to develop its own way of looking at women. Using these societal patterns, the machine builds its own interpretation of our world. It is within this computer model, by interacting with the latent space, that the artist has looked for glitches that may reveal the true gaze of women hiding behind their stereotypical representations. Behind the shallow surface of lines and color, a longing for an equal society is revealed, as if the machine could help us see beyond what society itself struggles to even consider. A new reality that talks about emphatic relationship among people and nature, where they all stand equal in a biocentric era.