Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo
Jun 5 – Aug 27, 2025
“From 11,000 abandoned portraits I was able to produce a series of new Mexicans, reminding me that a society’s memory is stitched from faces it no longer remembers. Our society is in pain from so many that have disappeared.” — Alejandro Cartagena
We Are Things GAN (2025)
I have spent many years mining Mexico City for what I call Expired Images: photographs shed by a society that once required the camera’s stamp to belong to its “visual tribe.” These prints are the debris of our Photographic Era — a type of documentation that once authenticated a life but now lies mute, stripped of purpose, reduced to faint traces of people and places. To ask what they still mean, I have moved from manual cut-outs to collages and, inevitably, to GANs, a set of tools whose very logic is pattern recognition and the speculative generation of forms I could never assemble by hand. Documentary GANism? Setting these machine-made visual monsters beside my first experiments from six years ago opens an entirely new seam of questions, and I am eager to keep probing what fresh possibilities the algorithm can bring to my original inquiry.
Exhibition at Louise Alexander Gallery.
Limited edition work available through Patricia Conde Gallery. Kopeikin Gallery. Louise Alexander Gallery. Circuit Gallery. Carmen Araujo Galeria.
