Exhibition // Craig Ames - Photographs of British Algae - AI Impressions
Using one of the cutting-edge imaging technologies of the day, the English botanist and photographer, Anna Atkins, created the world's first photobook and photographic-based record of botanical specimens. Celebrated for its historic significance and artistic merits, her ‘Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions’ (1843-1853), has gone on to inspire generations of artists and image-makers.
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) image generation is perhaps the most transformational imaging technology currently being developed and employed. Adopting Atkin’s philosophical approach to image-making, Ames utilises this rapidly evolving technology in order to create specimen exemplars of 'AI impressions'.
Working from a broad sample of the organic specimens Atkins originally illustrated, Ames repurposed their Latin names and processed them through an AI image generator to create new visual forms. The resulting ‘photographic’ fabrications were labelled and catalogued to create a new visual taxonomy of simulated algae. The synthesized specimens intentionally distort the boundaries between the real and the artificial, highlighting the growing disconnect between the natural world and the simulated hyperreality that increasingly subsumes it.
Opening hours
Thursday - Sunday: 12:00 - 17:00
Group exhibition // Des Oiseaux
Des Oiseaux // Birds, as seen by thirteen internationally acclaimed photographers: Albarrán Cabrera (ES), Roger Ballen (ZA), Graciela Iturbide (MX), Leila Jeffreys (AU), Rinko Kawauchi (JP), Michael Kenna (GB), Christophe Maout (FR), Byung-Hun Min (KR), Yoshinori Mizutani (JP), Paolo Pellegrin (IT), Bernard Plossu (FR), Pentti Sammallahti (FI), Terri Weifenbach (US).
This exhibition celebrates birdlife, as seen through the eyes of thirteen internationally acclaimed photographers. Their diverse perspectives invite the viewer to explore the sky and the creatures that inhabit it. From urbanspaces to exotic far-off lands.
The photographs bear witness to the variety of environments populated by birds and remind us of the threat posed by climate change.
The exhibition is based on a series of photo books by ATELIER EXB. This is the first time this unique collection of photographs is shown in Sweden.
Opening hours
Thursday - Sunday: 12:00 - 17:00