Until 30 June 2025, XVA Gallery is hosting MyLysses, a thought-provoking collective exhibition curated by German artist and photographer Tor Seidel. Rooted in a lineage of biblical, mythological, and literary motifs across artistic history, the show explores “the shifting role of text, literature, and knowledge in an age of AI.” It invites visitors to reflect on how artificial intelligence is transforming our relationship with reading, writing, and collective memory.
The exhibition features works by 13 artists, each responding to these themes through a range of media and conceptual frameworks. UAE-based artist and lecturer Brian Gonzales contributes hand‑made screenprints inspired by a video in which two AI agents engage in dialogue, gradually abandoning English for an unfamiliar, electronic language, echoing AI’s evolving “literature”. Interdisciplinary artist and writer Isaac Sullivan presents Dialogue with Chyron, a work shaped by conversations with an AI trained on his ongoing text-to-installation project, asking philosophical questions and reflecting on AI’s capacity to envision futures and origins.
German conceptual artist Marcel Buehler displays The Dante Series of 15 layered screenprints. These reinterpret The Divine Comedy through a lens of punk, photography, cosmology, and architecture, constructing a nonlinear spiritual journey. Meanwhile, curator Tor Seidel’s contribution, an installation titled Library, is a dream-like bookshelf of blank, untitled books that prompts questions about the nature of knowledge and what we believe we see.
Italian-Lebanese artist and writer Christiana De Marchi shows Beirut (The elusive is all the story), a series of marker drawings on tracing paper that catalogue book titles from her archive, investigating memory, miscommunication, and loss. Dutch photographer Charlie Koolhaas revisits four images from her series City Lust (2007), a time capsule which captures Dubai’s rapid transformation and emergence onto the global stage.
Pakistan-born artist Unaiza Ismail presents Ek Nuqty Wich Gal Muqdi Ay, a meditative pointillist work in Punjabi that evokes themes of origin, unity, and perception. It offers a counterpoint to digital noise through meticulous repetition. Emirati artist Shahad Mohamed AlBlooshi’s Writing in the Age of Algorithms explores the significance of handwriting in articulating inner thought. This art piece emphasises human connection in an increasingly digital, AI-driven world.
On display are also works by German photographer and conceptual artist Daniela Friebel, China-born artist Bao Li, Iraqi sculptor Mutasim Alkubaisi, German photographer Jens Lüstraeten, and Abdelghani Alanahawi.
To get more information about MyLysses, please visit the exhibition’s official web page.
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