Merzmensch - Artificial Memories 07

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 07

A monument of thoughts, dreamed by a machine.
In Artificial Memories 07, a structureless, almost sacred figure rises against an endless, surreal, deep blue background. Like an archaic skull, a temple of memory, or a fossilized algorithm, the object sits enthroned in an imaginary landscape. Its form oscillates between rock and flesh, architecture and anatomy.

Merzmensch doesn't create an image of the world here—but rather what remains when machines remember human images. It's a portrait without a face, a building without a function, a memory without a source. And yet it touches us: The work evokes that specific melancholy that arises when something seems simultaneously strange and familiar.

The MERZmory series explores the space between digital image production and cultural memory. What do we see when an artificial intelligence dreams? In Artificial Memories 07, it could be a vision—or a memorial from the future, already marked by our past.