Patrícia Abbott stands within the Brazil Corridor which is at present exhibiting her “Past Recollection” exhibition. Courtesy of Augustine Paredes
By Bereket Alemayehu
Brazilian multidisciplinary artist Patrícia Abbott opened her first solo exhibition, “Past Recollection,” on the Embassy of Brazil in Seoul, Sept. 3.
Her work examines the tensions between the fast digital and the reflective analog, exploring points on how we work together with pictures. For this exhibition, her AI-generated pictures mixed with oil work in addition to ground installations are on show at Brazil Corridor. Two of the items have been introduced from Brazil, and the remaining have been finished in Korea.
Born within the Brazilian capital of Brasília, and dealing with AI since 2021, Abbott has been immersed in searching for to narrate totally different mediums as a solution to elevate questions in regards to the totally different occasions inside every language and their processes to discover fields that come up from the blurring of their boundaries.
The exhibition presents her contemplations on the suggestions nature of the interplay between people and AI. Simply as AI feeds on what we produce to represent itself, we’re more and more defining ourselves via it, profoundly altering our personal perceptions. By way of this set of works, she explores the character of this mutual involvement, utilizing the themes of reminiscence and notion to incite most people to mirror on how these technological interactions essentially reshape our existential expertise.
Patrícia Abbott’s portray “Collapsing Waves” on show in Brazil Corridor for her “Past Recollection” solo exhibition / Courtesy of Augustine Paredes
“On this sequence of oil work, my work seeks to narrate oil portray and generative pictures as a solution to delve into the development of which means,” she stated in an introduction to the exhibition. “By way of algorithmic mismatches, I foster the creation of sudden relationships that lead to pictures evoking sensations of recollections and an awakening of the senses. The selection of pictures and the strategy of oil portray, intentionally slowed down in distinction to the just about prompt technology of generative pictures, creates a pressure between the temporalities of the pictures.”
When requested about her embracing the artistic involvement with AI-generated pictures, she stated that whereas we have a tendency to attract a line between the digital and the actual, the digital is turning into an increasing number of actual day by day.
“There’s this impulse to only generate so many pictures and simply go to the subsequent one, as a substitute of staying and seeing the questions that come up with this new, rising expertise,” she informed The Korea Occasions. “While you generate pictures with AI, you may generate hundreds of pictures. There’s this pace with generative pictures. However the slowness that the oil portray itself, the oil itself calls for.”
By way of her work, she experiments with slowing this course of down. By taking the time to work with oil portray, she extends her time spent with every AI-generated picture.
“Oil portray brings so many distinctive questions and distinctive properties,” she stated. “Additionally it is natural —there are natural components that blend with artificial components from the AI. And on this mixture, there are simply dynamics which can be distinctive. There’s a shift in which means with these pictures. On the identical time that I’m attempting to open new areas within the AI, this will additionally let new areas come up in my artistic course of.”
Patrícia Abbott’s portray “One other Moon” on show in Brazil Corridor for her “Past Recollection” solo exhibition / Courtesy of Augustine Paredes
In her yr and a half residing in Korea, she has additionally been working with numerous different mediums, together with printmaking, images and drawing, with all of the mediums she makes use of in a dialogue with one another.
Rising issues in regards to the utilization of AI in numerous fields are hotly debated as of late. On the subject of artistic purposes, necessary questions come up: who’s the creator, and who can declare originality and copyright? She identified that AI can’t create pictures by itself.
“We’re tempted to say AI is only a instrument,” she stated. “However there’s a very totally different facet to it as a result of it may possibly additionally make selections. I am additionally pondering, how can one thing new be created? And never simply discover a solution to replicate issues. As a result of I feel that may be a very difficult space — there must be a dialogue additionally. Whereas in portray, via the method, one thing that’s unbelievable is that you’re at all times discovering issues. With AI additionally, should you give it a sure components it may possibly go into an aesthetic. However you may attempt to run away from that in numerous methods. I feel that is what I am attempting to do. I am looking for little gaps.”
A poster for Patricia Abbott’s solo exhibition, “Past Recollection” / Courtesy of Embassy of Brazil in Seoul
The exhibition is on the embassy’s Brazil Corridor till Oct. 31. Guests are welcome on weekdays from 10 a.m. to six p.m. Go to pabbott.artwork for extra info.
Bereket Alemayehu is an Ethiopian photograph artist, social activist and author primarily based in Seoul. He is additionally the co-founder of Hanokers, a refugee-led social initiative and freelance contributor for Pressenza Press Company.
