Father, forgive them for they know not what they do
_{2024
Installation
Presented at Rijksakademie Open Studios 2024}

Danae Tapia turned her studio into a place of prayer, where visitors are welcome to sit and implore higher powers for the betterment of contemporary artistic circuits. All the visual pieces in the room were generated with artificial intelligence software, informed by the artist’s account of her dreams, and then altered through a series of algorithmic and material edits.  

In this installation, you can also read copies of “Art Has Never Been This Boring,” a poetic pamphlet written by Tapia, which is also the source for a digital bot that produces automated textual outputs that are incorporated into the room.

This oratory then emerges as an a computational exploration into the unconscious, and, using a religious perspective, proposes a cybernetic response to the spiritual crises faced by the world today.


👯‍♀️ Harry Pot and Claudia Partac (installation support), Sander van Wettum (Photos)
📍️ Amsterdam
⛓ Rijksakademie Open Studios 2024