Contradictory Mirrors

A speculative visual ethnography rendered through AI-generated collodion portraits, this series exposes how machine learning aestheticizes human suffering. By simulating documentary tropes without reality or biography, it reveals a hyperreal humanitarianism—an algorithmic compassion that reproduces pain as image, urging reflection rather than empathy, unease rather than consolation.

Jaime Ramírez Cotal – www.ramirezcotal.cl