The Fall of Icarus
by Manuel Cosentino
portfolio special mention call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2022', 2022
Category: Nature, Environment and Perspectives
Inspired by one of the oldest and most thought provoking subjects of history painting “The Fall of Icarus” is a series generated by an off the shelf artificial intelligence algorithm (DALLE-2) trained on millions of photographs to turn users’ text prompts into photorealistic images, AI-based photographs. The availability of this new process adds another step towards the dissolution between reality and imagination, truth and fiction, while also threatening the artist and their practice.
The series elaborates on the future, ambition and hubris acting as a reminder of the limits and perils of our very nature.
Unfinished without the public the series uses small spherical mirrors to finally reveal to us the true face of Icarus.