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INTERLACED OBJECTS
7 August _7 September 2025 NEW YORK
Fakewhale Studio is proud to present its inaugural exhibition project, the result of an extended period of research and reflection on themes that have long been central to our practice.
The project took shape last winter, when we began photographing the streets of New York with a particular focus on abandoned commercial spaces: empty storefronts, disused interiors, vacant rentals, and traces of vanished businesses. These images became the foundation for a broader visual investigation. We used the collected material to train a generative model capable of creating scenes in which our works appear to take shape precisely within those vacant spaces.
At first glance, the resulting images seem to document a physical exhibition. But upon closer inspection, subtle inconsistencies emerge, hallmarks of the artificial intelligence that generated and embedded the artworks into the architectural voids. What unfolds is a coherent, almost curated sequence that plays between urban reality and generative fiction. The AI-generated visuals echo elements of our own visual language, creating a dialogue between real places and imagined interventions.
With this project, we wanted to challenge the conventional role of the exhibition image as static documentation. Instead, we reimagine it as process, as flow, as possibility.
Following the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, our work continues to question what it means to produce images of new artworks in an era where authorship and originality dissolve within algorithmic mechanisms. The focus is no longer on the singular, original artwork, but on a logic of continuous variation, guided and selected rather than fixed and final.
This debut exhibition by Fakewhale Studio positions itself as a discursive act: an observational field in which every image becomes a provocation, questioning our relationship with the visible, the notion of authorship, and the emerging aesthetics of artificial intelligence.
The absence of a physical exhibition space and the reduction of artworks to AI-generated images are not limitations, but deliberate methodological conditions, a curatorial gesture that transforms constraint into an operative field.
In this reduced space, the image expands.
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