

Archives for others - From the series 'Inhabiting other planets'
Technical Sheet
Year: 2025
Genre: Photography + artificial intelligence
Series: Inhabiting other planets
Linked: photobook "Neuro UMAMI / La Taula Quàntica" (MACBA bookstore). Presented in October in Cadaqués with curator Margarita Aizpuru
Description
"Archives for others" represents a significant and timely contribution to the contemporary photographic art scene. The project dialogues directly with central questions of our time: memory, identity, technology, and the transformation of the subject in the age of artificial intelligence. Through a photographic work based on personal archives and collaboration with artificial intelligence tools, the artist opens a space for critical reflection on the notion of authorship, the construction of the self, and the legitimacy of visual narratives generated by machines.
The proposal acquires special relevance for several reasons. First, due to its innovative nature: it is a work that not only uses technology, but questions it and incorporates it as an active part of the artistic discourse. Second, due to its ability to engage the audience on the limits of what we understand by photography, truth, or visual memory. At a time when images are produced, disseminated, and manipulated on a massive scale, this project offers a perspective that is both critical and poetic.
On a cultural and social level, "Archives for others" connects with the contemporary debate on posthumanity, coexistence with artificial intelligence, and new forms of subjectivity. The use of one's own personal photographic archive, reinterpreted by an artificial entity, generates a narrative that is simultaneously intimate and speculative, and can be read through multiple layers: affective, political, technological, and aesthetic.
The project adds value not only through its content, but also through its pedagogical and curatorial potential, opening lines of work on emerging artistic practices, critical technology, and personal archives as creative matter.
Methodology
I work with photographs from my archive, taken in various countries (Africa, China…): landscapes, people, cities. These images act as backgrounds or, at times, blend with characters created using AI. In this case, it is the Devesa of Girona and its fairs, where human characters blend with robots and posthumans who, through their presence, convey an uneasiness about a not-so-distant future.
I also find interesting the small errors committed by AI, which is improving in leaps and bounds. Documenting what AI is doing right now seems very valuable to me.





