VIRTUAL LANDSCAPE

This is a conceptually ambitious series that requires context to be understood in its full radicality. Created in 2013—prior to the democratization of generative AI tools—these CGI (Computer-Generated Image) works emerged from a complex and deliberate technical process. The decision to construct images suggesting seascapes through this medium—without a camera, a specific location, or a moment in time—is a deliberate gesture. A stance. *Virtual Landscape* (Virtual Landscape) questions the ontological status of the photographic image. Inherently, photography is traditionally defined by its relationship to the real—in theory, there is always a place and a moment to which the image corresponds. By producing images that mimic the appearance of photography yet lack a connection to reality, the series anticipates—it is worth noting these were made in 2013—the debate currently dominating visual culture: what is an image when we can no longer guarantee it corresponds to something that actually existed?

They are presented in a diptych format.