Descripción de la Exposición
“A.I.” — Artificial Intelligence or Alien Invasion — as a metaphor for an altered present.
The exhibition presents childhood figures reinterpreted with a distorted aesthetic, as if they had been generated by a machine or arrived from another planet. This visual transformation engages with our current moment: a world marked by wars, social setbacks, and a political climate that seems straight out of a movie. The fiction, however, is real.
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We live in a present defined by uncertainty, with a constant sense that something beyond our control is about to happen. In this context—where machines “think,” even if artificially—imagining an alien invasion seems less absurd. Even more so when artificial intelligence is capable of writing this exhibition text with precision from just a few inputs, and even offering its own opinion.
The exhibition parodies contemporary reality: war-torn, authoritarian, and regressive, yet simultaneously permeated by astonishing technological advances. The distorted childhood figures act as the perfect camouflage, disguising the unsettling—yet in some way fascinating—darkness that surrounds us. From an early age, we are presented with a sweetened version of the world: colorful and kind, but ultimately an illusion.
In the end, our entire life feels like a movie—insulated from the harshness of the outside world. Real events pile up like images and data floating in our minds. And only in certain moments, when they brush up against us directly, does that supposed fiction cease to be fiction. And then, something very close to fear appears.
During the process of interacting with the machine, the AI has been treated with complete respect and kindness—just in case...
Formación. 30 oct de 2025 - 11 jun de 2026 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España