Szymon Rogiński and Andrzej Strumiłło – I don’t dream. I don’t feel lonely. I haven’t any hope. And I’m not afraid of death.

“On the spiritual in art” by Wassily Kandinsky is a famous manifesto published in the beginning of the twentieth century, in which the artist opposes the materialism of the mechanical reproduction era. Over a hundred years later, Szymon Rogiński asks AI a very direct question if it possesses a soul.

He also takes us on a journey to the Taiga, where he uses AI-generated images and Andrzej Strumiłło’s photo document in order to let us touch the “incredible” – shamanic spirituality and the wild nature.

Monika Kostera summarises his visual expedition into the realm of algorithms in the following way: “This exhibition allows for something novel to emerge from the existing code and generated amalgam. It uses the products of artificial intelligence to urge imagination into the spaces of production.”

Text: Michał Woliński