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Older Than Stones

Installation with AI-generated self-portrait, dried tofu sheets, spirit money, candle, and clementines

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In Older than stones, there are perishable and symbolic materials into a fragile altar-like constellation. An AI-generated self-portrait rests among offerings of tofu skin, spirit money, fruit, and flame, objects that gesture toward memory, nourishment, ritual, and transience. The work suspends the image of the self between the technological and the ancestral, inviting reflection on how identities are preserved, consumed, and returned to cycles older than human history.

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photographs by César Axel

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