Merzmensch - Artificial Memories 05

From the series: MERZmory
Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.

Merzmensch – Artificial Memories 05

A memory that only a machine can have: fragmented, translucent, fragile, and yet strangely familiar.

In Artificial Memories 05, Merzmensch presents something that defies any clear interpretation: an object somewhere between fossil, ruin, and dreamlike creation, seemingly born from the very core of an artificial psyche. The form is reminiscent of a skeleton, an abandoned exoskeleton of a lost idea. As if a neural network had attempted to construct an organic structure – and stalled mid-process.

The MERZmory series is dedicated to the idea of ​​machine memory – a memory that was not experienced, but reconstructed. Artificial Memories 05 is particularly archaic – almost pre-cultural. The work seems like an artifact from a civilization that never existed, yet still touches something within us. Perhaps because it reflects our own unconscious – a digital Rorschach test image that challenges our vision without providing answers.

What remains of memory if no one really remembers?
What does form mean when its meaning has disappeared?