In 2024, we began experimenting with generative artificial intelligence.
We saw in it an opportunity to stage our fascination with ruins and the anxieties of the present era by imagining an abandoned Paris, while playing on the boundary between fiction and reality and on the fear of human obsolescence in the face of the rise of AI.
The project thus became for us a way to examine the relationships between the city, art, and, more specifically, photography, and their shared connection to the ruin and its representations.
The title of the series, Les Ruines de Paris, refers to the albums of the 1871 Paris Commune that were abundantly produced by photographers such as Charles Marville and Alphonse J. Liébert and their 19th-century contemporaries, often titled Les Ruines de Paris.
Continuing this line of inquiry, we combined the AI-generated images with antique stereoscopes.
This work has been published in a book by Albin Michel in 2024.
STEREOSCOPES & ALBUMS
INSTALLATION VIEWS
