Being Human 8118

Focuses on the expression of aesthetics in a Cyborg futuristic setting, using generative adversarial networks style language that is inspired by the painterly art of the Renaissance, Baroque and Mannerist painting in the manner of Bronzino. This collection of artworks represent the pluriverses when the organic and the inorganic and their mutual constitution in multiple and open forms of coexistence merge. The artists explores Artificial Intelligence and What it Means to be Human. In addition to the play of contrasts of light and shadow like Caravaggio, the artist reinvents the art of headdress and jewelry. Each woman is equipped with cyborg surreal and metallic accessories embellished with hard stones, plants and electronic objects. However, the pale-skinned women have the particularity of having their eyes completely closed. Does the absence of sight serve to hide the interiority of the being or are they looking inwards? In this approach, is there a mistrust to take subjectively part of the future? Does the introduction of technological resources changes the perception of our environment? A portraits generally have the function to immortalize the model. Now with AI work is in progress on an artificial intelligence so advanced that it immortalises people by ‘remembering’ their entire experience. Florencia leads us to question the emotions of these technological augmented humans. This goes well beyond a computer’s ability to reproduce our facial features – the artists questions, When you close your eyes where do you go, where are you? and she quotes a truth already intuited by Uruguyan novelist Eduardo Galeano: that human beings aren’t made of atoms, much less of bits. They are made of stories. The portraits are conceived as ontological openings, perhaps to travel new paths or return to places that we have abandoned.