Anaïs Horn: Dreamers, 2024 Series of 8 postcards, sold separately

Dreamers is a project I conceived during my residency at Castro Projects in Rome in 2024. Drawing inspiration from Marianne Wex’s seminal exploration of gendered body language and patriarchal structures (Let’s Take Back Our Space: Female and Male Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures, 1979) and Glenys Davies’ examination of gender and body language in Roman art (2018), I created a series of postcards. These were displayed on a postcard stand outside of Castro Projects during the Roman gallery weekend and performatively sold to tourists in Rome.

For this series, I used analog filters to photograph statues of male emperors in Rome. I then employed artificial intelligence to transform these photographs into images of statues of female empresses. The distribution of these postcards in an accessible manner serves as a subversive act, constructing an alternative reality and rewriting history to provoke future change.

This is a way to integrate AI into my artistic practice, which often evolves around historical female figures telling (her)story / ies. - Publisher