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An exhibition of digital paintings by Gravy Bébé
December 13, 2025 – January 3, 2026
Haiku.jpg translates buried private memories into images through the impartial third eye of a machine. Each piece begins with a Polaroid—a physical record of the artist’s body—and a haiku written about a past intimate encounter. Fed into generative AI, image and text collapse into something new: soft, violent, tender, and inhuman all at once. The results are blurred and dreamlike, forms that almost remember being human. They echo the way memory edits itself—becoming a ghost through regret, longing, and shame. In these images, the body becomes both suggestion and portal, revisiting lost moments with AI as its dystopian spirit guide.
About the Artist
Gravy Bébé is a semi-retired Internet addict experimenting in digital nostalgia. Although she prefers the deliberate lag of being Extremely Offline, she still writes poetry on her Notes app and dreams about her first GeoCities site, which had a sparkly cursor and a page about Salvador Dalí. Her work explores what happens when the Internet remembers too much—and what traces we leave behind without meaning to. Her most recent body of work uses a combination of open source and paid GenAI models, happily misusing AI to explore the absurdity of machine-mediated memory.
