A small interactive exhibition for voices and ladies curated by Naima.
Faces of ladies, between chiaroscuro and retro memories, seemingly straight out of a dream and suspended in a time that is no longer ours but not entirely in the past either. Their faces are impassive, often framed by Flemish collars and surreal headdresses. There are over thirty of them, and they are silent... but not forever.
Naima, who crosses the boundaries of artificial intelligence with the delicacy of someone who questions and experiments, has generated a veritable army of synthetic “icons” over the last three years, fragments of forgotten beauty.
And for this project, she has gone one step further: she has given them a voice. It is up to us to make them sing. Five of these ladies, in fact, sing when viewed through a smartphone screen. And thanks to the intervention of visitors, they form a choir that changes each time depending on who is watching. The overlapping voices create an ever-changing score.
But what gives meaning to this exhibition is not the technology itself. It is the poetic idea behind it.
As in Andersen's fairy tale, in which the Little Mermaid gives up her voice to obtain legs and live on land, here too we are faced with figures who have crossed the boundary between worlds. And in doing so, they have lost their song.
The song of sirens is therefore a poetic attempt to give back a voice to those who cannot speak. To bring to life images created by a machine.
Via Rocciamelone 1, Torino