The Latent Space

Interact with the work of Alejandro Cartagena through The Latent Space, an AI-driven large-scale projection. Designed and developed by Hugues Bruyère in collaboration with Cartagena, The Latent Space is an AI model trained on the artist’s photographs of homes and urban environments to explore representational bias in training datasets. By manipulating physical objects, viewers can shape and transform the projected image, revealing new outputs generated by the model.

About the Artist

Over the last two decades, Alejandro Cartagena’s projects have employed landscape photography and portraiture to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. His work has been exhibited at more than fifty group and solo exhibitions, including the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) in Barcelona and the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris. His work is held in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Portland Museum of Art, SFMOMA, and others. Cartagena has received several awards including the international Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, the Street Photography Award from London Photo Festival, the Lente Latino Award in Chile, the Premio IILA-FotoGrafia Award in Rome, and the Salon de la Fotografia of Fototeca de Nuevo León in Mexico. He was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2021. Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico.
 

This program is made possible with support from Google.org.