Reconstructed Reveries: AI and the Fabric of Memory
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PrizeBronze in Special/AI Generated Images
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PhotographerXinya Xu, China
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Date of Photograph2024.04.30
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Memory, with its inherent fuzziness, fluidity and reinterpretation, resembles the workings of Text-To-Image AI generators—both capable of producing countless variations and interpretations of a single event.
Inspired by Freud's concept of infantile amnesia, which underscores our inability to recall the earliest moments of our lives, this series delves into the mysterious void of pre-verbal childhood. By extracting passages from my mother's diary chronicling my life before my second birthday, I employ generative AI to bridge the gaps in my recollection.
Xinya Xu is a visual artist who treats the everyday photograph as something that quietly holds the social and cultural texture of its moment. Working between the mundane and the unrepeatable, she photographs common life less as a record of one era than as a way to reach the feelings people share across language, culture, and history. Her work has been recognized by the Prix de la Photographie Paris, Fine Art Photography Awards and Tokyo International Foto Awards, and exhibited in Tokyo and Paris.
