Fake Reality duo show with
Dune Varela

Fake Reality: the project brings together the post-photographic practices of Dune Varela and Pietro Catarinella, two artists united by the desire to go beyond the boundaries of the image. Dune Varela transfers the pigments of his photography onto Carrara marble, creating sculptures that evoke archaeological ruins. Pietro Catarinella fuses artificial intelligence and painting, building interior landscapes full of desire, disorientation and metamorphosis.

Post-Human Hallucination \ fusing artificial intelligence and oil painting in a repetitive and circular process to explore a new expanded ecology of visions

This series of works was created using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Images are printed on cotton canvas and oil painted. As with the rest of the practice, it is based on a tension between personal intuition and the involvement of technology as an external extension of a collective mind. The process is cyclical, with machine learning being performed repeatedly. For each image generation, the AI is fed photos of my completed works, which have been previously generated by the machine and painted. This process allows the AI to study my own works and reformulate them based on its experience. By increasing the textual input and shortening the time given for data processing, I address the AI in a way that challenges its generative logic, aiming to bring out its synthetic unconscious. The objective of this body of work is to expand the boundaries of painting by fully integrating the mechanical mind and organic body. This will be achieved by investigating the resulting subconscious visions in a shamanic manner.