ESX
Gints Gabrāns
7 – 15/03/2025
Gallery 427 will be occupied for a week by an exhibition whose game rules are governed by an algorithm, transporting visitors’ portraits to a supernatural, digital hallucinatory realm inhabited by transmutant beings among slime mold sculptures and other generated flora in an artificial intelligence-imagined forest. The artificial neural network generates in real time transformations of the viewer’s individual appearance into a representative of another intersex trans species – a being from another world whose origins disappear, with the algorithm using computer vision to choose how to transform the viewer’s features without their participation or the ability to control what to do in an emotional puppet show.
Mining the data oil of imagined present-day values, the algorithm drowns the portraits in a sea of generated functions that surge between the winds of societal development and the movements that have formed within them. By manipulating the AI input prompts, the artist generates his own unique trans-community, which lives in a fantastic, mountainous, uncivilized forest, where what a person identifies with is changed, without the individual having control over the miraculous transformations, giving in to the identities created by the algorithm and resolving the relationship between man and art with algorithmic systems and artificial neural networks.
– Kaspars Groševs
Music by TV Maskava and Platons Buravickis
Programmer: Ansis Spruģevics
Support: VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation), PXB
Photos: Līva Priedīte