Exhibition
From November 07–10, 2024
58 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
Open from Thursday to Saturday, 1 to 7 p.m
+33 6 60 22 25 02
Exhibition
From November 07–10, 2024
Gretchen Andrew (American, b. 1988) is known for her unique merger of traditional artistic mediums such as photography and oil paint with advanced technologies such as robotics, algorithm and artificial intelligence. For Paris Photo 2024, Gretchen Andrew explores what happens if photography, technology, and traditional painting cross paths. In her new series Facetune Portraits she merges traditional art forms and custom robotics, applying popular AI-driven beauty filters directly onto photographic portraits printed in wet oil paint.Left with a striking contrast, the viewer gets drawn into the tension between our natural selves and the digital ideals imposed by technology. Gretchen challenges these ideals. The unaltered human face coexists with the algorithmically 'perfected' version readily available on social media platforms and video conferencing tools, resulting in a double portrait, taken by the artist herself.Facetune Portraits reveal the tension between who we are and who AI says we should be, asking which aspects of our identity are altered or erased in this process.What is preserved, and what is lost?** Newpaper of the Solo show **
Hugo du Plessix
In the series of photographs Facetune Portraits - some of which immediately evoke in me the album covers of the electronic duo Disclosure from the early 2010s - Gretchen Andrew offers a malicious and clever visual commentary on the algorithms supposed to make us beautiful that populate our phone applications.