I can’t prove any of it

The legitimacy of the image as evidence has long seemed eternal for photography, yet even within a mode of creation that is a complete record of objective facts, there is a hidden truth that can lead to misleading results: though the tools are honest, those who use them are not. As the productivity of Artificial Intelligence enters a new era, renewed context of the times shakes the solid authority of all the universal definitions and perceptions that have existed for so long in the past.

Strongly interested in the notion of "artificiality", Peishan Huang has been incorporating AI into her creative tools since spring 2023. In the latest series of her works on display, Peishan Huang starts from the familiar mediums of traditional photography and sculpture, and combines them with PS and AI to "re-create" materials and inspirations extracted from daily life scenes. By repeating and debugging several times to approach a specific "scene" preset, Peishan Huang realizes the photography of imaginary space, and re-presents the "reproduced scene" in the form of an installation. This series of works can be seen as an experiment that aims to both "exploring the possibilities and boundaries of co-creation between different media" and "building a virtual space for emotional support based on the artist's personal preferences”. It continues Peishan Huang's previous discussions on imitation, simulation, the desire to make things, and poetic aesthetic preferences, and questions the legitimacy of "image as evidence" in the specific context of "man-made" subjects: the artist seeks to create "seemingly correct" but flawed images, which are defined as photography of imagined space, which the image appears to be evidence of the actual existence of the imagined situation, while the flaws become evidence that the space and landscape within the image have been digitally edited and simulated to achieve "simulation".

I can’t prove any of it #1
2024
Archival inkjet print
80 x 105 cm (mounted)

46.72 x 65 cm (image)

I can’t prove any of it #2
2024
Archival inkjet print
90x70 cm (mounted)

I can't prove any of it #3
2024
Archival inkjet print
80x80 cm

I can't prove any of it #4
2024
Archival inkjet print
80 x 80 cm (mounted)

I can't prove any of it #5
2024
Archival inkjet print
123 x 123 cm (mounted)
70 x 70 cm (image）

I can't prove any of it #6
2024
Archival inkjet print
73 x 73 cm (mounted)
50 x 50 cm (image)

I can't prove any of it #
2024
Archival inkjet print
52 x 78 cm (mounted)
35 x 58 cm (image）

I can't prove any of it #8
2024
Archival inkjet print
73 x 60 cm (mounted)
50 x 37 cm (image)

I can't prove any of it #9
2024
Archival inkjet print
48 x 58 cm (mounted)
30 x 40 cm (image)

I can't prove any of it #10
2024
Archival inkjet print
84 x 103 cm (mounted)
60 x 80 cm (image)

I can't prove any of it #11
2023
Archival inkjet print
73 x 73 cm (mounted)
50 x 50 cm (image)