Art in Space, Dubai
6 min 40 s loop

Eastern Promises

[ DESCRIPTION ]

A room built from Mammadov's study of nineteenth-century European Orientalist painting, shown at Art in Space, Dubai, in March 2023. The source is more than 8,000 paintings of the Near East and North Africa. A panoramic film of six minutes and forty seconds runs on a curved wall ten metres long. Ten upright screens stand with it, one for each recurring subject of the genre, among them interiors, palace scenes, bazaars, architecture, portraits and landscapes. Object-detection boxes, classification scores and cluster diagrams stay visible over the generated images.

[ TAGS ]

2023
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[ INFORMATION ]
Medium:
Multi-channel audiovisual installation (curved panoramic screen and ten vertical screens, sound)
Location:
Art in Space, Dubai
Year:
2023
Duration:
6 min 40 s loop
[ Synopsis ]

A room built from Mammadov's study of nineteenth-century European Orientalist painting, shown at Art in Space, Dubai, in March 2023. The source is more than 8,000 paintings of the Near East and North Africa. A panoramic film of six minutes and forty seconds runs on a curved wall ten metres long. Ten upright screens stand with it, one for each recurring subject of the genre, among them interiors, palace scenes, bazaars, architecture, portraits and landscapes. Object-detection boxes, classification scores and cluster diagrams stay visible over the generated images.