Double glove (Double glove)
Having made the Web the breeding ground for new narratives hybridizing the real and the virtual via artificial intelligence (AI), Grégory Chatonsky seems to have opened Pandora's box of our postmodern world: delegating the composition of his dystopian visions to "artificial imagination", the artist seems to have sold his soul to randomness and indeterminacy.
Drawing on the flood of images accumulated on the web, AI attempts to imitate reality, but always deviates and distorts it. A disruptive agent in our landscape, whose dislocation and ruin it anticipates, it produces only the monstrous. Such is the case with the atrophied gloves in the latest series by the master of ambiguity: gloves that cannot be put on, with two, four, or six fingers, covering like a second skin the most technical part of the human body.
Appearing thus "fetishized," as in the surrealist stagings of Man Ray or Max Ernst (Chatonsky's favorite artist), the gloved hand reveals the imperfection of all artifice, but also the intrinsic duplicity of nature. Having observed that in AI-generated images, hands appeared abnormal, deformed, and that the AI's process of imitating reality stumbled over this dual aspect of the body, Chatonsky sought to highlight it, recalling, as a good philosopher, the principle of chirality developed by Aristotle, Kant, and others: that living organisms are divided in two and that the cells of these two parts are never absolutely identical.
Paris – France
Stéphanie Dulout