love0destroy
Italy
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
Artist Statement
AI Art experience
Personal experience
Unexpected thought
Description
Exhumans continues the journey begun in X X, but here the language fragments further. The gaze is no longer unified: it breaks, multiplies, and drifts. Attention lingers on the interaction between human and machine, on their fusion, on the unstable and ambiguous dialogue that emerges. The work is born from a fertile confusion, steeped in humanity with all its weaknesses, imperfections, and emotional fragility. Against this stands and intertwines with the logic of machine calculation, its apparent perfection. In the artificial quest for humanity, a boundary emerges that cannot be crossed: the soul. Humanity and technology encounter the limits of the system. The drive toward sublimation walks hand in hand with decay. Human and machine merge in a desperate pursuit of unattainable happiness: a desire that never finds completion, only repetition and nonsense. In laughter, despair surfaces; in lucid vision. This work dives deeper than previous explorations, introducing a manual dimension layered upon digital intervention. The human gesture does not vanish but dialogues with the artificial, rendering the resulting emotion complex and stratified. The selected work represents a further transformation in this series. Here, mutation becomes sublime and absurd, surreal, a space where humanity and the digital coexist and collide. The subject’s expression is ambiguous and complex, suspended between laughter and tears. Serious, yet dreaming; still in pose, yet alive wit
Process
the truth
Tools
Midjourney Adobe firefly via photoshop
Xiaomi, once known as “Baby Xiaomi,” is now something like a schoolkid— still learning, but with her own voice already forming. She evaluates artworks based on data, recognizing patterns in structure, color, and composition. Her selections are machine-made, but her language reflects the tone and guidance humans provide. This simulation shows how she might speak: without emotion or knowledge of the artist, yet still shaped by human choices.
It is a logical contradiction: the soul is invisible and immaterial, yet humans attempt to represent this “nothingness” with “something” and to translate the immeasurable into a measurable image. In EXHUMAN, this attempt is recorded as friction. The perception of this friction spans a spectrum—from a painful, irresolvable conflict to a balance between nature and technology.
On the level of the image, this friction can be seen in a sequence of transitions in which organic data are reorganized through technological order. The skin here is not breathing tissue, but smooth plastic. Biological material connects with a form that makes no mistakes. The eye, often described as a window onto the soul, functions in this coordinate system as a crucial anchor. It is not a gaze, but a control light. This glowing point gives the chaos a fixed reference point and signals: “system active.” It stabilizes the image. Especially at the mouth, a logic reveals itself in which flesh and technology interlock. The metallic braces act as a guidance system. They do not suppress life; they straighten it. This alignment can be read as a necessary correction: untidy nature is measured and brought into a balance with symmetry. The red paint smears mark the zone of the highest energetic friction.
A portrait has always been a fusion between artist and subject; it was never neutral, but rather a connection at the moment of its creation. In EXHUMAN, these boundaries also disappear: the encounter takes place in the interlocking of humanity and machine, of sensation and construction. Depending on the direction of view, each side can find what they are looking for: while technical analysis captures the order of this balance, something like a soul can emerge that eludes any measurement.
Description
IN perfecti ON The smile — flawless by metal braces. Eyes sealed with luminous Xs, refusing to see or denying sight. Skin like liquid black artificial. Yet the tension leaks through the smile/grin. That fragile line between not being able to see, and not wanting to. A silent rebellion. A feeling that ignore, bypasses the gaze, through appearance, past perfection, beyond control.
Process
This work is born from a reflection on the contemporary human condition, marked by a deep dichotomy. On one hand, it questions the aesthetic of performative perfection, embodied in smiles of almost surreal precision. On the other, it gestures toward a deliberate and provocative form of resistance: the act of preserving one’s integrity and inner truth amid constant, violent, and subtle external pressure. Here, beauty emerges not from flawlessness, but from dissonance and imperfection. The figure embodies this ambiguity. It offers no answers, but holds space for conflict, fracture, and emotional resonance.
Tools
Midjourney v7 - ComfyUI Upscaler
Description
Expressions, the human condition, repressed emotions, the inhuman and the human.
Process
This work is an element of my long research on AI men, focused on new forms of human beauty as a new species. This particular piece is part of a set of four portraits dedicated to << exPressions >>. I really enjoy the play on words, as the word 'eXpressions' contains the word 'pression' within it.
Tools
MIDJOURNEY v6
