21st February - 7th March 2025
Curated by Alberto Franco
Jettison Foundation, Bremen, Germany
Exhibition text:
Loosely tied to ideas of accelerationism and Kali Yuga—the Buddhist age of decline—the works display a visceral progression toward destruction, where the past grows heavier, and the future shrinks and homogenizes. Climate catastrophe, mass extinction, and the advent of AI cast long shadows of humanity's built-in obsolescence: What happens when the world ends? Will consciousness end with it, or will it persist as something different?
At the periphery of this inquiry lies a question of simulacra—can artificially generated images elicit the same emotional resonance as human-made art, or are they merely hollow, neutered echoes incapable of truly reaching an audience? Does an aura of our user-uploaded archive of cursed images remain, or has art itself been consumed by the weight of AI mutation and replication?
