Une histoire parallèle :
Photographie & IA
Brodbeck & De Barbuat
Curated by Yann Toma
Exhibition from December 18, 2023 to January 20, 2024
Brodbeck & de Barbuat offers a corpus of invented images that recreate a set of symbolic photographs from the history of photography through a machine learning program generating images from textual data. Formed in 2005 and awarded the national photographic commission Image 3.0 in 2021, the duo of artists explores here, thanks to their mastery of the photographic medium, the dialogue between man and machine. A parallel history is part of their study on photography as a means of retranscribing and altering the real, highlighting the necessity to constantly rethink our relationship with images and new technologies. Brodbeck & de Barbuat is represented by the gallery Papillon.
In "A parallel story", Brodbeck & de Barbuat propose a corpus of images that recreate an invented history of photography through a machine learning program generating images from textual data. This project studies the emergence of creative tools using artificial intelligence and their impact on Photography and its ability to make history, highlighting the need to constantly rethink our relationship with images as well as new technologies.
BRODBECK & DE BARBUAT form a duo of artists using mainly photography and video. Working together since 2005 in Paris, they are graduates of the Ecole nationale supérieure de la Photographie, and were residents of the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis 2016-2017. Their large-format color works question the place and nature of the human being in his environment, while frequently questioning the language and history specific to photography.
Laureates in 2020 of the national photographic commission Image 3.0 in partnership with the national collections of the Jeu de Paume and the CNAP, they received the 2010 HSBC Prize for photography, the 2013 Young Creation Award, the Nestlé Prize at the festival Images Vevey 2010, and the 2009 Talent Grant Award.
Their works have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Flyway Museum in Antwerp, at the Mep Maison européenne de la Photographie, at the Villa Médicis, at the Académie française in Rome, at the Institut français du Japon and at The Chimney, New York; and collective exhibitions at the Grand Palais, at the Kunsthalle in Munich, the Arsenale in Venice, the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki and the Images Vevey Festival, among others.
Their works are in private and public collections, notably at the National Center for Fine Arts, the National Library of France, the Municipal Fund of Contemporary Art, the Flyuseum Antwerpen, the Museum of Photography Thessaloniki, the Popular Pavilion, to the HSBC collection for photography, to the Nestlé collection, to the Cicrp Marseille, etc.