The dual exhibition “re:ai” of Macanese artist Edmundo Remédios Lameiras and his daughter Emma Remédios Lameiras will take place at the gallery of the Portuguese Bookshop. In the exhibition, Edmundo draws elements from popular social media culture and downloaded different profile pictures of people from the Internet, and then uses multiple AI (artificial intelligence) imaging applications to modify and reshape the original representations of these avatars.
From here, the topic of “portrait” is introduced and developed into a series of imagery. These printed works are colorful and the facial features of each portrait have been deliberately “fine-tuned” by the artist. The characteristics of the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth have been intentionally tampered with, jumping out of the boundaries of being recognizable or not. As an art form, it becomes a reflection of universal cultural and social phenomena.
The artist’s daughter, Emma, who loves drawing and poetry, has chosen the online “Automatic Text Generation” (ATG) system application and entered her own poetry to obtain sentences generated by artificial intelligence, combined with her drawings, she processed further and designed, combining specific ideas of human nature with artificially produced and random text, to create a series of profound images.
At the basement gallery of the Portuguese Bookshop, what the two generations of Macau native artists want to show us is the combination of inheritance and innovation. Their reshaping of identity, in this small city full of colonial history, is brewing energy to invite people to enter the thoughts and visions of the future.
When: March 13–27, 2021
Where: Portuguese Bookshop, 16 R. de São Domingos, Macau
How much: Free admission
For more information, check the event’s Facebook page
