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Le Souffle du Nomade
Nomad’s Breath

10 November - 6 December 2025. Farid Rasulov, Almagul Menlibayeva, Maaya Wakasugi, Mamali Shafahi, Roberta Marroquin, Jon McCormack, Heather Mattera, Lynda Draper, Fansack, Steve McCurry, Juliette Somnolet

curated by Lexing Zhang and Amber Terranova

In an age shaped as much by excess as by absence, Nomad’s Breath gathers twelve artists whose works move like a traveler’s exhale: light, resonant, connective. This exhibition frames nomadism not as rootlessness, but as a way of breathing with the world: exchanging presence, story and shelter rather than possessions. Generosity is unmeasured; it lives in the smallest gestures. A glance across distance, a note of song, the hush of shared silence. The nomad breathes in rhythm with the landscapes they cross, offering whatever they hold — salt, song, solace — to those they meet.

Announcing:

Artist Jurģis Peters selected acquisition for the GESTE Collection. Peters AI generated work “Endless Feed’ was chosen from our still image open call section of the exhibition Meta_Contra_Verse.

Endless Feed, 2022
Hahnemühle PhotoRag 308 gr Archival
Pigment Print
70 x 90 cm
Edition of 1
(image 1)

Endless Feed, 2022
AI Generated Image
(image 2)

The “Endless Feed” collage varies in the amount of AI images and therefore in the overall size, it can be created to match any given space requirements.

“Endless Feed” is a collection of AI created images that explores the future of suggestion algorithms and personalised social network feeds. As part of a larger research about how suggestion algorithms function and what their implications are, the artist over a four month period had observed his Instagram suggested post section, downloading a portion of the suggested images. With over 1000 of the images
collected, the artist used them as a training set for an AI algorithm. After training for a
couple of days, the AI algorithm was able to create an infinite number of new images
that were based on the ones provided in the training set.

These new images then formed the basis for an “Endless Feed”, which can be seen
as a reference to the ‘infinite scroll’ - a technique used in social media apps, where
the user can scroll the feed forever, without running out of new posts. Having seen
the aesthetic quality of these AI created images, one can’t help but wonder if image
feeds with similar AI generated content, could indeed soon replace the human
generated images. As surely such image feeds could be even more engaging for the
dopamine addicted scrollers that we have become. Combining the user profiling
capabilities of the suggestion algorithms with the possibilities of generating new
images, it is not hard to imagine a near future where our social media feeds are
flooded with the synthetically generated targeted images that match perfectly with
what we want to see.

FINISSAGE

Please join us for the finissage event with the artists and curators in celebration of the 6th edition of GESTE Paris: Meta Contra Verse. (The World Cup will be on view for those who can’t miss it)

Rejoignez-nous pour notre Finissage samedi 10 décembre à partir de 18h pour célébrer la 6ème édition de GESTE Paris avec les artistes et les commissaires.
(La Coupe du monde sera également visible)

Saturday, Dec 10th, 2022
18:00 PM - 00:00
GESTE Paris, 10 Rue Croix des petits Champs, 75001, Paris

RSVP essential [email protected]

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At GESTE Paris, we explore the potentials and perils of transformative media. We interrogate how these new realities are shaping the future of creativity and look to the works of Vilém Flusser as a guide in exploring these questions. We aim to create a forum for discussing the pervasive effects of AI and other transformative media on the creative process, as well as the implications for the future of art. (OpenAI generated summary)

Meta_Contra_Verse

GESTE Paris is pleased to invite you to join our Salon in the presence of artists and experts on Saturday 12 November 5pm Meta_Place: Territorial/Celestial/Intangible/Concrete

Camille Gajate, Co-curator GESTE Paris in conversation with artist Clément Briend, GESTE jurist Lexïng Zhang and Beatrice Masi of Spaceless Gallery.

6pm Letters from the Future: Artificial Intelligence_ Contra_Art

Led by GESTE jurist Tariq Krim, technologist and digital anthropologist, in conversation with GESTE founder Shiva Lynn Burgos, artists MONOMO, Damien McDonald and Aaron Huey alongside experts: co- curator Georg Bak Art Advisor Crypto+Blockchain Art, Hervé Gonay R&D Al research

RSVP essential [email protected]

Final Week for GESTE Paris “Future Conditional” - Last day Saturday 18th December;
Exhibition hours: from Wednesday to Saturday 12:00-18:00 and by appointment.

RSVP essential. Covid protocols in place.
DM / call / text for details.

[email protected]    
+33 (0) 7 81 28 49 03.

[image] The Mariwai Project, Michael Reich, David Young, darktaxa-project.

All Geste 2021 Artists:

, , , , David Young , , , , Andy Goldsworthy, + , Rafael Y. Herman , , , .labourdette, Janet Levy , .mariwai.project, .alexane, , Antoine Ribaut , Tim Rollins + K.O.S, Wolfgang Staehle,

GESTE Paris is an undergroundexhibition project investigating the « gesture » through photo and filmbased art practices.

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[left] Janet LEVY, Bird’s Eye View, 2021, collage on paper, 30x30 cm

[right] Warren NEIDICH, Time 4, 2017,
neonograph, unique image archival
c-print, 76 x 110 cm Warren Neidich]

GESTE Paris “Future Conditional” is open for the public until December 18th.

RSVP essential. Covid protocols in place.
DM / call / text for details.

[email protected]    
+33 (0) 7 81 28 49 03.

General opening hours are from Wednesday to Saturday 12:00-18:00 by appointment

Geste 2021 Artists:

, , , , David Young , , , , Andy Goldsworthy, + , Rafael Y. Herman , , , .labourdette, Janet Levy , .mariwai.project, .alexane, Warren Neidich], Antoine Ribaut , Tim Rollins + K.O.S, Wolfgang Staehle,

GESTE Paris is an undergroundexhibition project investigating the « gesture » through   and filmbased art practices.

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Antoine RIBAUT, Méditation, "Riddle of the Night (I)".
117,5 cm x 103 cm
Antoine Ribaut].

GESTE Paris “Future Conditional” is open for the public until December 18th.

RSVP essential. Covid protocols in place.
DM / call / text for details.

[email protected]    
+33 (0) 7 81 28 49 03.

General opening hours are from Wednesday to Saturday 12:00-18:00 by appointment

Geste 2021 Artists:

, , , , David Young , , , , Andy Goldsworthy, + , Rafael Y. Herman , , , .labourdette, Janet Levy , .mariwai.project, .alexane, , Antoine Ribaut Antoine Ribaut], Tim Rollins + K.O.S, Wolfgang Staehle,

GESTE Paris is an undergroundexhibition project investigating the « gesture » through   and filmbased art practices.

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