Sculpture Centre NY

Lydia Ourahmane and Yuma Burgess, Untitled, 2022, installation view, Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili, SculptureCenter, New York, 2022. Photogrammetry, generative adversarial network, polylactide thermoplastic, anodized steel. 222 inches x 106 inches (563.9 x 269.2cm). Courtesy the artists.Photo: Charles Benton

"...a high-relief topographical sculpture produced in collaboration with Yuma Burgess replicates surface sections of the desert and was 3D-printed on site at SculptureCenter in thin tiles of black thermoplastic. The work appears as a continuous field, suspended as a monumental screen, but in actuality it is a partially invented landscape: it collapses the distance between multiple real sites, and it uses a general adversarial network (GAN) to produce new textures that fill the space between the edges of discrete scans. Like the film, the sculpture pairs excessive or indulgent visuality with speculation about what cannot be seen (for a range of reasons), but can be sensed, intuited, or imagined, a feeling heightened by the reflective luster that makes the work’s dark surface ambivalent."

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