IDentity is the new multimedia project by Patrizia Genovesi, an artist whose work has always explored the intersections between art, science, and technology. At the heart of this exhibition lies a profound investigation into the status of subjectivity in the age of artificial intelligence: who are we when we are online? What shape does consciousness take as we move from embodied experience to algorithmic life?
The exhibition unfolds as an immersive, multidimensional journey, blending photography, video art, interactive installations, generative systems, and sonic environments. The use of AI-generated visual materials is not merely a technical tool, but a critical language in itself: it reveals not only what AI can produce, but what it fundamentally cannot inhabit or understand.
A distinctive feature of IDentity is the open dialogue with other artistic perspectives: Genovesi’s works are placed in relation to a curated selection of photographic pieces by both Italian and international authors — starting with members of AFIP International – the Association of Professional Italian Photographers. This curatorial dialogue opens a broader reflection on self-representation, embodiment, and public intimacy in the digital age. The exhibition is deliberately polyphonic, reflecting the fragmented and ever-evolving forms of identity shaped by virtual environments.
The installation is deeply inspired by the artist’s philosophical essay “Where Are We When We Are Online?”, which explores the digital space as a non-place of consciousness — a realm where internal orientation gives way to external reaction, and identity becomes operational rather than existential.
IDentity is not simply an artistic display — it is a conceptual and phenomenological space where AI is questioned, not celebrated: Can AI generate experience? Can it return vision? Or does it remain structurally incapable of inhabiting what it produces?
Rather than offering definitive answers, IDentity engages the viewer as an active, critical presence — disoriented yet still grounded. In a world increasingly shaped by flow and impermanence, IDentity invites us to rediscover the act of vision as a cognitive and emotional form of resistance.
