“Biastiário: matriz das malícias” is Fernando Velázquez’s fifth solo exhibition at Zipper Gallery. The show constructs a contemporary bestiary with images generated by artificial intelligence, reflecting on algorithmic bias, dataset politics, and the intersection of organic and synthetic forms. The exhibition includes prints, objects, nearly-poetic texts, and an interactive stop-motion video.
In Biastiário, my fifth solo exhibition at Zipper Gallery, I continue my research with artificial intelligence, incorporating new layers: the post-human, the post-organic, and the post-ecological.
The title of the show is a neologism that merges the word bias with bestiary, the medieval tradition in which strange creatures served the Catholic doctrine as pedagogical material. This exhibition is therefore fabulatory in character, proposing to imagine that the images it presents, all generated with the aid of artificial intelligence, were discovered in the ruins of a future civilization. The works cover the room with implausible, bizarre yet familiar beings, in dialogue with art history. They seem like the product of a neoclassical movement projected into a future in which the biosphere has merged with the technosphere, the biological with the synthetic, in a post-ecology of flesh, code, and glitch. The decision to install them as frescoes, covering the walls and ceiling of a kind of chapel, seeks to update the pedagogical character of the original bestiaries, inviting visitors to reflect: what new forms of existence are we inadvertently generating?
Excerpt from the press release
