About
Brodbeck & de Barbuat are a Franco-German duo of artists interested in the aura of photography, and questioning it through new technological tools.
In their series “A Parallel History”, they challenge AI by prompting on Midjourney precise descriptions of famous photographs, thus exploring what makes a work of art.
Brodbeck & de Barbuat are represented by the Galerie Papillon (Paris).
Works
Etude d’après Edward Weston, Nude, Charis, Santa Monica, 1936
BRODBECK & DE BARBUAT
2022
Digital print
Courtesy Galerie Papillon
This work highlights the program's difficulties, in its early versions, in representing the human body, deformed in this study of Guy Bourdin and Edward Weston. Nevertheless, another kind of poetry emanates from these images, striving to refashion reality.
What makes a work of art? By exploring AI's ability to create, this series also raises the issues of copyrights and biases.
Artwork presented at « AI, My Sparring Partner", an exhibition commissioned by Havas, Paris, 2024.
Etude I d’après Guy Bourdin, Charles Jourdan, Autumn 1977
BRODBECK & DE BARBUAT
2022
Digital print
Courtesy Galerie Papillon
This work highlights the program's difficulties, in its early versions, in representing the human body, deformed in this study of Guy Bourdin. Nevertheless, another kind of poetry emanates from these images, striving to refashion reality.
What makes a work of art? By exploring AI's ability to create, this series also raises the issues of copyrights and biases.
Artwork presented at « AI, My Sparring Partner", an exhibition commissioned by Havas, Paris, 2024.
Etude d’après Margaret Bourke-White, At the Time of the Louisville Flood, 1937
BRODBECK & DE BARBUAT
2022
Digital print
Courtesy Galerie Papillon
This work highlights the program's limitations in expressing notions such as fatigue, racial discrimination or the relationship between the photographer and their subject. It makes the viewer wonder: what makes a work of art? By exploring AI's ability to create, this series also raises the issues of copyrights and biases that limit obtained results.
Artwork presented at « AI, My Sparring Partner", an exhibition commissioned by Havas, Paris, 2024.