{"product_id":"merzmensch-memoryfaces-08-kopie","title":"Merzmensch - Artificial Memories 04","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the series:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e MERZmory\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaper:\u003c\/b\u003e Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheet size:\u003c\/b\u003e 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eYear:\u003c\/b\u003e Edition of 2025\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e 3 + 1 AP\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eSigned, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"390\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"177\"\u003eMerzmensch – Artificial Memories 04\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"180\"\u003e A house that was not built.\u003cbr data-start=\"425\" data-end=\"428\"\u003e A place that no one knows – and yet many seem to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"811\"\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"519\"\u003eArtificial-Memories-04\u003c\/em\u003e is a digital mirage with a strangely familiar atmosphere. The architecture appears European, almost Alpine—but it is twisted, shifted, and floating. The image is reminiscent of a yellowed photograph from the family archive—taken in a 1970s summer that never happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"1156\"\u003eIn the series \u003cem data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"836\"\u003eMERZmory,\u003c\/em\u003e Merzmensch explores those moments of collective memory that are reassembled by AI. The images are not the result of a documentary gaze, but of algorithmic nostalgia: The machine hallucinates places because it has learned what memories look like visually—without ever having experienced them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1387\"\u003e The work thus oscillates between photography, dream image, and malfunction. It demonstrates how much our concept of \"reality\" has long been a media construction—fed by images that are never true, but are deeply rooted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1389\" data-end=\"1584\"\u003e Like an echo from a parallel archive \u003cem data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1457\"\u003e, Artificial-Memories-04\u003c\/em\u003e appears melancholic, quiet, and otherworldly. It's not the past that's being reconstructed here—but our relationship to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KI EDITION BERLIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252874334543,"sku":null,"price":900.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2826\/3759\/files\/MERZmory---Artificial-Memories-04.jpg?v=1737238143","url":"https:\/\/ai-edition-berlin.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/merzmensch-memoryfaces-08-kopie","provider":"AI - EDITION BERLIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}