Chloe McFadden
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Leftover Valentines (2021)
Leftover Valentines (2021) was an exploration of how we can use GANs (Generative Aversarial Networks) to repurpose and investiagte leftover data to reveal aesthetic and semantic patterns associated with Valentine's day. Trained on images of jewellery, teddy bears, chocolates and roses, the work is a set of GAN generated prints paired with curated generated love letters.
This work engages with the constructed aesthetic and semantic meanings of love, lust and gifting. In the confusing mixtures of bodies, openings, lovers, words, objects and shapes, the original meaning of these gifts are lost, creating space for the viewer to speculate new meanings and non-meanings of the Valentine gift and the love letter.