‘Credenza: belief or trust’ (Italian). How can we believe what we see and trust what we hear within a digital culture of AI-generated social media, conspiracy theory and post-truth political rhetoric? In Renaissance Italy, the act of credenza was the tasting of food and drinks by a servant to test for poison. The name then passed to the room where this took place and then to the furniture on which the food was presented. Employing the credenza as both a conceptual and a physical framework, Stephen Dixon’s installation questions the prevalence of artificial intelligence in contemporary visual culture, reimagining the artefacts of the Renaissance collector and manuscript hunter Poggio Bracciolini through a critical mash-up of ‘deepfaked’ ceramics, sculpture and furniture.
Supported by Potclays Limited
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