About
Bas Uterwijk aka Ganbrood has always been involved in forms of visual storytelling that imitate and distort reality. Since 2019 he combined his different skills and experiences when he started working with generative adversarial networks (GANs): Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence based software that interprets and synthesizes photographs.
Works
Heir Apparent
GANBROOD
2025
AI artwork
Print on paper
Heir Apparent was created for the exhibition Sasha Katz x Guests as a counterpoint to Sasha’s universe.
Its attractivity comes more particulary from the breach Ganbrood creates in reality. What does the artist show us? Do these young heirs exist or are they made up? Will one of them eventually reign or was that just an illusion? The image has the appearance of a photograph, but is it really one?
The subject of destiny appears to be the common thread linking "Heir Apparent" and the work of Sasha Katz.
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025