2025
Bronze
Approx. 30–45 cm in height, each sculpture
The 'FAKE MYTHOLOGY' series consists of six bronze sculptures, derived from the artist’s re-extraction and transmutation of their own digital works. The sculptural forms are generated through a multi-layered process: from AI image generation and digital modeling, to 3D printing and finally traditional bronze casting. In this cyclical transformation from image to model to physical object, the artist reveals how technology intervenes in—and reshapes—the logic of artistic production on both cultural and material levels.
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Continuing the artist’s long-standing inquiry into the relationship between technology and humanity, AI here is not merely a tool for form-making but assumes the role of a generative agent. Its inherent “misreadings” and “deviations” translate the grand narratives of classical mythology into estranged and displaced figures. While these sculptures inherit the formal sensibility of Renaissance traditions, they simultaneously expose the absurdities and errors generated by AI’s non-human logic—manifesting forms that resist anatomical or structural conventions, and inhabiting a tension between the real and the fictive.
Against the backdrop of contemporary technology’s deep involvement in artistic production, this series also resonates with Walter Benjamin’s classic reflections. If photography and print once diminished the “aura” of art, then the intervention of AI and 3D technologies further propels both its de-auraization and re-auraization: generation and reproduction are no longer mere repetitions of an original, but the creation of unprecedented “fake mythologies.” This act of “disguise” functions both as a re-interpretation of mythological narratives and as a critical inquiry into the very ontology of art itself.
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Equally significant is the choice of bronze as the final medium. This ancient and weighty material endows the works with a renewed sense of materiality and ritual. Thus, Fake Mythology is at once the product of mechanized production and the bearer of artisanal tradition—situated in the tension and dialogue between contemporary technology and classical craft.
As both formal experimentation and philosophical inquiry, the series compels viewers to reconsider: when AI and machines ceaselessly generate, replicate, and alter cultural symbols, can art still retain its uniqueness as a vessel of human thought and spirit?