Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain is pleased to present “À contre-courant”, Adam Jeppesen’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
À contre-courant presents a new series of works that delve into the intricate relationship between human consciousness and the vast, unpredictable, evolving intelligence of artificial systems. The works are conceived in close collaboration with artificial intelligence, where machine learning and human creativity merge to generate new possibilities of thought. The exhibition invites the viewer to confront these novel realities, to step outside the familiar patterns of their own minds. It also calls on to reconsider the boundaries of consciousness from a perspective that challenges the distinction between the human and the artificial.
Jeppesen's practice has long been concerned with the transient and the impermanent. In his latest body of work, he extends this inquiry to the blurred boundaries between human cognition and the algorithmic processes that now mirror, extend, and disrupt our understanding of the mind. Rather than treating AI as a tool, Jeppesen envisions it as a collaborator—a partner in creating speculative visual languages that probe the deeper layers of human thought and perception.
The images, produced using cyanotype prints and acrylic on canvas, are informed by vast datasets that reflect billions of human experiences, yet the resulting works transcend mere replication, offering new ways of perceiving the unknown aspects of consciousness. The hazy forms glow softly in the dark, echoing both the luminous qualities of the medium and the deeper philosophical questions surrounding the nature of intelligence—whether human or synthetic.