STOLEN PICTURES (2025)
Lately, the emergence of generative AI has led me to question the value of fiction. Why invent stories when a machine can do it?
While I usually imagine the stories and situations I draw, I’ve made an exception this time.
In an attempt to put the focus on my drawing skills, rather than my capacity to imagine funny situations, I gathered images from all corners of the internet—online shopping stores, my private cloud where I store my photos, Instagram reels, museum websites, and more—and attempted to replicate them. The common thread between these images was that I liked them, each for different reasons.
All my renderings were hand-drawn using the same technique, aiming to replicate the originals as closely as my drawing skills allowed.
Once copied, regardless of whether the original was a painting or a photograph, a photograph made public or kept private, fictional or documentary, they all seemed to belong to the same fictional world.