“The selection of works engage in and at the intersection of artificial intelligence (Al) and the physical world, through the use of portraits created by means of algorithms. The artist’s goal is to merge these parallel universes to demonstrate the ability of AI to infiltrate our inner emotional world. Jeppesen makes use of found images that have been created using self taught AI technology.”

— Adam Jeppessen

The Piero Atchugarry Gallery | Pueblo Garzón is pleased to announce Rose the white moon with the promise of the west an exhibition exploring the cross-cultural challenges that we face in the 21st century, including the rapid development of new technologies and spiritual depletion. Adam Jeppesen, (b. 1978 in Kalundborg, Denmark), is an artist and a traveller. He is best known for his images of remote and rugged landscapes where he celebrates the physical imperfections his long and arduous journeys left on his negatives. Jeppesen's work elevates the imperfect and celebrates the honesty that comes with allowing the imperfection to take centre-stage within his finished pieces. The fragility of photographic materials, the passage of time and the materiality of the photograph as an object are continuing themes that reappear in Jeppesen's oeuvre.

He first gained international recognition with his "Wake" series, which were published in 2008 by Steidl in book format. Jeppesen has since published several books, Error, Object, Structure, being his most recent. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is present in the collection at the Denver Art Museum (USA), the Danish Arts Foundation, the National Public Art Council in Sweden, the National Museum of Photography in Denmark, as well as in numerous private collections. In addition to the exhibition in Innova, Jeppesen is showing his large-scale installation, The Great Filter, at Museo MAR, Argentina, as part of Bienalsur. Adam Jeppesen currently lives in Maldonado, Uruguay.

The selection of works engage in and at the intersection of artificial intelligence (Al) and the physical world, through the use of portraits created by means of algorithms. The artist’s goal is to merge these parallel universes to demonstrate the ability of AI to infiltrate our inner emotional world. Jeppesen makes use of found images that have been created using self taught AI technology. These images are then transferred to glass plates using anthotype, a photographic technique developed in the 19th century. This technique uses pigments derived from trees and plants to make light-sensitive paper, which is exposed for long periods of time using sunlight to transfer the image.

In recent years, advances in AI technology have been used to manipulate public opinion, election results, and truth itself. It seems highly unlikely that any AI threat will come in the form of super robots, as popularized by Hollywood. A more likely scenario is that AI changes our perception of the world and makes truth a matter of opinion. In that sense, it is no longer a hypothetical proposal. This is happening today. As an illustration of this fact, the featured work questions our own emotions: What do you feel when you see these images? Who do these portraits remind you of? Intellectually, you may know that they don't represent anyone real. They are empty. Shells. And yet, evolution and our emotions have taught us otherwise. Trust.