In Autophagia, Rhys Edwards explores the unstable relationship between photos and actuality by means of up to date still-life portray. Drawing connections between Dutch Golden Age floral work and at this time’s AI-generated imagery, his work combines objects and flowers painted from life with discovered pictures and AI-generated fragments to look at how photos are created, reproduced, and reworked.
The ensuing oil work occupy an area between documentation and invention, revealing the slippages between totally different variations of actuality.
“Edwards takes up the idea of autophagy in synthetic intelligence analysis, by which language fashions are skilled on knowledge they’ve themselves helped generate, forming a recursive loop that’s vulnerable to eventual collapse—creating an ouroboros of picture technology. His oil work mirror this situation. Whereas they keep the floor of realism, they don’t decide to a single register of the true.”
Rhys Edwards is an artist, curator, and author whose work has appeared in The Capilano Overview, Border Crossings, C Journal, and Canadian Artwork. Autophagia is his first solo exhibition with Wil Aballe. He’ll start his Grasp’s in Portray and Drawing at Concordia College this fall. The present is on view till September fifth.
