Obvious

Magenta Garden of Replicant Delights, 2023

Photography print on Canson Baryta Prestige II (340g) stretched on a 2mm aluminum plate.

Size: 1 meter x 1 meter

Medium: Composition created using completion algorithms on artworks from the Speciesism series, themselves created using a long-form minting process with Stable Diffusion V1.5.

This artwork is a creation which depicts the universe of Speciesism, a series depicting the human/machine relationship, as an invitation to consider the categorization of intelligent forms into species. “Speciesism” questions our relationship towards other species, from the exploitation of animals to ensure our food chain, to the current debate around new rising forms of intelligence in the machine learning field. The 69 artworks of the series have been created through a long-form process: the artists created the conditions for the visual creation, and the artworks were created only when they were actually collected. The artists and the collectors discovered the final pieces at the same time.

Magenta Garden of Replicant Delights is born from an experimentation of a new form of creation, one that pushes the boundaries of long-form. In this process, the artist uses the generated artworks of the process as matter for a new kind of creation. This creation is a way to reclaim a part of the creation process, while pushing further the back and forth process of exploration and discovery together with collectors.