The fifth installment of OVERTON WINDOW presents a new installation by Italian artist Paolo Bufalini, titled double blind.
The work consists of two images from the Rückenfiguren series (2024–ongoing), which Bufalini develops from the Romantic motif of the Rückenfigur: a figure seen from behind and turned toward a mysterious and inaccessible elsewhere.
The two portraits, which allude to the artist’s personal and family memories, reveal themselves upon closer inspection as synthetic images. They were produced by retraining generative AI models using scanned and digitized photographs from the artist’s family albums.
By incorporating traces of time such as scratches, dust, and imperfections typical of amateur analog photography, the new generative models produce a distinctive aesthetic, a hybrid language between the encyclopedic visual imaginary embedded in the model and a circumscribed, intimate, and emotionally dense visual paradigm.
The play of doubling also contributes to reinforcing the semantic ambiguity of these images, projecting them beyond technical reproducibility and photographic indexicality, toward an as yet inaccessible territory made of statistical representations, memories, and collective beliefs.
double blind by Paolo Bufalini
Curated by Re:humanism
📅 Opening: June 12, 2026 (6-8 pm)
Tue–Sat 11am–7pm
📍 Matèria – Via dei Latini 27, Rome
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