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L’artiste Nouf Aljowaysir (SA, 1993) détourne les outils d’intelligence artificielle afin de révéler leur logique interne ainsi que les forces économiques influençant leurs réponses. En mêlant recherche technologique et récit personnel, elle interroge la manière dont ces systèmes façonnent notre pensée et notre regard.

Son travail, présenté dans de grandes institutions internationales, interroge notre relation aux images et aux récits produits par la machine.

📍 L’exposition “Lehnert & Landrock. Relecture d’une archive coloniale” est à voir jusqu’au 1er février 2026
✨ Entrée libre

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Artist Nouf Aljowaysir (SA, 1993) repurposes artificial intelligence tools to reveal their internal logic and the economic forces influencing their responses. By combining technological research and personal narrative, she questions how these systems shape our thinking and our perspective.

Her work, which has been exhibited in major international institutions, questions our relationship with machine-generated images and narratives.

📍 The exhibition “Lehnert & Landrock. Revisiting A Colonial Archive” is on view until February 1, 2026.
✨ Free admission

[Images : Nouf Aljowaysir, “Salaf #2102”, 2021, de la série “Salaf” (“Ancestors”), 2021-2025 © Nouf Aljowaysir]

#photoelysee #plateforme10 #lehnertetlandrock #museecantonalpourlaphotographie #photography #switzerland #lausanne #lausannemusees @plateforme_10 @lausannemusees @nathalie.herschdorfer @gloria_oyarzabal @nouf.py @miserabilis @juliebonzon10 @juliedayer taken in Photo Elysée by @nouf.py

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a year ago

🎞️ Nouf Aljowaysir 🎞️

PG Studios’s fourth online exhibition is now live on the Palmer Gallery website (link in bio), exhibiting work by @nouf.py.

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Nouf is a self-taught new media artist who explores our ever-changing relationship with artificial intelligence systems and algorithms. She challenges AI tools with intimate questions about inclusivity and biases: whom do they benefit, and whom do they ignore? Nouf’s Ancestral Seeds series continues her exploration of identity and genealogy through the lens of AI and colonial archives. The project is grounded in the Salaf dataset - a photographic archive of 6,000 colonial-era images from the 1800s to early 1900s, altered using AI to erase the original subjects. These photographs, filtered through a Western colonial gaze, often depict staged and exoticized scenes that perpetuate reductive stereotypes. By processing these images through computer vision models, Nouf exposes systemic biases embedded in AI - such as the misidentification of veiled women and the mislabeling of Bedouin figures with militaristic terms. These failures highlight broader issues related to prejudiced AI models, data collection, representation, and the selective preservation or exclusion of histories.

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[Slide 3]
Seed 26, 2025
AI generated image, giclée printed on Hahnemühle German etching paper, stained walnut frame, window mount, museum glass
42 x 30 cm

[Slide 5]
Seed 19, 2025
AI generated image, giclée printed on Hahnemühle German etching paper, stained walnut frame, window mount, museum glass
42 x 30 cm

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For any enquiries about Nouf’s work, please DM or email contact@palmergallery.co.uk 📬 by @nouf.py

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My film Where am I from? (Ana Min Wein?) is officially presented by @nytimes op-docs. Op-Docs is the New York Times’ award-winning series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers.

I am truly speechless and honored for my film to be a part of the Op-Docs family 🤍 Making this project has meant so much to me: for my practice as an artist, for the memories and struggle I’ve always felt immigrating to a new country, for processing who I am today and seeing the beauty of my ancestry instead of the reduction of it to war, politics, and pain. This film is not just about AI. It reflects our society’s tendency to put each other in boxes and labels and reduce cultures to a degree that they don’t even exist anymore. My work celebrates oral storytelling and the poeticism of being human and alive. I wonder if AI can truly capture that?

This question will continue growing and shifting as I grow older and live in more places, and I’m excited to continue making art, talking about it with AI, and seeing how it evolves with me.

Thank you to so many of those who have left and sent messages of support and resonance.

Thank you to everyone involved. Full credit list is on my film :) couldn’t have done this without @somersethousestudios @hopeart.ist @artofsarraa 🖤

Supported by
@somersethousestudios @ual_cci @theturinginst taken in New York, New York by @nouf.py

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“IMAGINED TERRITORIES” (exposição coletiva / group exhibition)
› Museu da Imagem [Braga]
› Curadoria: Wiktoria Michałkiewicz (@wiktoriami)

A exposição reúne quatro artistas, Alwin Maigler, Nouf Aljowaysir, Osheen Harruthoonyan e Tashiya de Mel, que questionam a forma como a fotografia construiu e perpetuou ideias de identidade, território e pertença.

Através de histórias coloniais, arquivos e experiências pessoais, os trabalhos revelam memórias apagadas, representações enviesadas e diferentes formas de imaginar o passado. Em conjunto, propõem um olhar crítico sobre quem é representado, quem é excluído e quem controla as narrativas visuais.

Entrada livre.

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The exhibition brings together four artists, Alwin Maigler, Nouf Aljowaysir, Osheen Harruthoonyan and Tashiya de Mel, who question how photography has shaped and perpetuated ideas of identity, territory and belonging.

Through colonial histories, archives and personal experiences, the works reveal erased memories, biased representations, and different ways of imagining the past. Together, they offer a critical perspective on who is represented, who is excluded, and who controls visual narratives.

Free admission.

─── ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM 2026
𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨́𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚́𝐫𝐢𝐨 | 𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 | 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬

🔗 www.encontrosdaimagem.com

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1 - “Horizon Denied”, Alwin Maigler
2 - “Salaf”, Nouf Aljowaysir
3 - “Black Garden”, Osheen Harruthoonyan
4 - “To taste a bittersweet history”, Tashiya de Mel taken in Museu da Imagem by @nouf.py

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🎞️ NOW SCREENING AT GOWEN LAB

Nouf Aljowaysir
Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?)

Presented as part of Nouf Aljowaysir‘s First Solo Show at the Gallery, Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) expands the artist’s exploration of memory, identity, and the ways artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems shape our understanding of ourselves and our histories.

Constructed as a visual diary, the film brings together personal archives, oral storytelling, and an AI narrator to examine how technologies not only inherit but also reproduce cultural biases, while exposing the reduction of culture and the eradication of collective memory.

Winner of the 2023 Lumen Prize for Moving Image, the film has been screened internationally at IDFA, CPH:DOX, Centre Pompidou, New Museum, M+ Museum, and Somerset House, and was released as part of The New York Times Op-Docs series in June 2024.
@nouf.py

On view until July 30, 2026.

Opening hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. & 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday: 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

GOWEN LAB
Rue Jean-Calvin 4, Geneva

Credits:
Trailer from Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?), 2022. Courtesy of Nouf Aljowaysir and GOWEN. © Nouf Aljowaysir. #lumenprize #noufaljowaysir #generativeai #shortfilm taken in GOWEN Gallery by @nouf.py

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NOW ON VIEW AT GOWEN LAB
Nouf Aljowaysir.  Selected photographic and video works
 July 10 – 30, 2026

GOWEN is pleased to present Nouf Aljowaysir’s first solo presentation with the gallery.

Bringing together photographic works from the artist’s Salaf (Ancestors) series alongside her short film Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?), the exhibition offers a broader perspective on Aljowaysir’s practice. Through photography and moving image, she explores memory, identity, and the ways artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems shape our understanding of ourselves and our histories.

We look forward to welcoming you at GOWEN LAB. @nouf.py

Opening hours 
Tuesday–Friday: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. & 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. 
Saturday: 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
GOWEN LAB 
Rue Jean-Calvin 4, Geneva

Credits:
Installation Views, Nouf Aljowaysir, Selected photographic and video works, GOWEN LAB, Geneva, CH, 2026. © Claude Cortinovis.
Nouf Aljowaysir, Salaf#2095, 2020, AI-Augmented Archival Image, 38 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy of Nouf Aljowaysir and GOWEN. ©️Nouf Aljowaysir. #noufaljowaysir #generativeaiartist #contemporaryart #artandai taken in GOWEN Gallery by @nouf.py

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OPENING SOON AT GOWEN LAB
Nouf Aljowaysir
Selected photographic and video works
July 10 - 30, 2026

GOWEN is excited to announce the opening of Nouf Aljowaysir’s first solo presentation with the gallery.

For the first time, the show brings together photographic works from the artist’s ‘Salaf’(Ancestors) series with her short film ‘Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?).

The dialogue which emerges offers a richer reading of the artist’s wider photographic oeuvre, examining the evolution of our behaviours and interactions with algorithms using artificial intelligence tools.

Join us at Rue Jean-Calvin 4 on Friday July 10 from 5pm to 8pm.

We look forward to welcoming you!
The GOWEN Team

@nouf.py #noufaljowaysir #contemporaryphotography #ai #soloshow #openingsoon

Images:
* Nouf Aljowaysir, ‘Salaf464’, 2020, AI-Augmented Archival. Courtesy of Nouf Aljowaysir and GOWEN. ©️ Nouf Aljowaysir.
*Nouf Aljowaysir, Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?), 2022, Video (colour, sound), MP4 (digital camera, computer vision, object detection models, AI masking techniques), 12 min 29 sec. Courtesy of Nouf Aljowaysir. ©️ Nouf Aljowaysir. taken in GOWEN Gallery by @nouf.py

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Nouf Aljowaysir, Ceremonial Ancestors

2026, Permastone sculpture with laser etching + generative video

A video and sculpture in dialogue, exploring the biases encoded in artificial intelligence and in the archives that train it.

Ceremonial Ancestors extends Aljowaysir’s research on AI, identity, and bias through the Ross Archive of African Images at Yale, a collection composed almost entirely of European-made photographs. Many of these images document objects extracted from communities under colonial conditions, then reclassified as “art”—stripped of their ritual, social, and spiritual contexts, and flattened into a Western-legible idea of African culture. Today, AI systems train on archives like this one, inheriting and reanimating the same distortions.

Aljowaysir responds through erasure. Using AI segmentation, she removes parts of the archival photographs, creating gaps in the data and disrupting the cycle of misrepresentation. These altered images became the training material for the model that generated the video: a latent space walk through multiple generated outputs from the model. Yet the work shows that even through erasure, AI continues to learn and reproduce colonial patterns, turning bias into an almost unrecognizable abstraction.

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Nouf Aljowaysir is a visual artist whose practice critically examines the role of algorithmic intelligence in shaping personal and collective constructions of selfhood and historical knowledge. Working across photography and moving image, she creates narratives that move between archival materials, memory and particularly non-Western histories.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at Jeude Paume, Photo Élysée, M+ Museum, Rhizome, and KADIST, among others, and featured in Le Monde, BBC Culture, and The New York Times. She is a recipient of the 2023 Lumen Prize for Moving Image.

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Soft Screens
On view: 5.21 – 6.20 | Fridays and Saturdays, 1–6 pm, and by appointment
Closing Reception: Monday 6.22 at 6 pm

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

📸: Justine Cooper taken in The Old American Can Factory by @nouf.py

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Last week to see my series Salaf (Ancestors) as part of Imaging after Photography at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University @themoodyarts

Curated by Alison Weaver @alisonweaver00 and Noor Alé @noor.means.light, Imaging after Photography explores how AI is reshaping photography, blurring the line between images captured from the world and images generated by machines. Through the work of global contemporary artists, the exhibition asks what feels real, what is fabricated, and how new technologies change the way we see ourselves, history, and the world around us.

Salaf sits within this conversation by exploring the unstable space between photography, memory, absence, ancestry, and machine-generated images.

The exhibition has also received critical coverage from Hyperallergic, e-flux, Forbes, British Journal of Photography, Blind Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and more.

Beautiful exhibition design by @designed_by_world @alejandrostein @mondragon_frank

Thank you to the Moody team for hosting me twice ❤️ by @nouf.py

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GOWEN @artgeneve 2026!
Booth D36
January 29 – February 1, 2026
@palexpo

Presenting works by:
Nouf Aljowaysir, Claude Cortinovis, Louise Giovanelli, Alexandra Häberli, Ayana V. Jackson, Sylvie Lambert, Roméo Mivekannin, Nicolas Party, Joana Vasconcelos, Sofia Yeganeh, Marta Zgierska, Jérôme Zonder

Credits:
* Roméo Mivekannin, ‘Ingres la comtesse d’Haussonville’, 2025, Acrylic on velvet, 180 x 150 cm. Courtesy of The Artist and GOWEN.
* Installation View, Art Genève 2026, GOWEN, Booth D36, Geneva, CH. © Julien Gremaud.
* Louise Giovanelli, ‘An Ex’, 2020, Oil on canvas, 170 x 120 cm. On Loan, Courtesy of GOWEN; On Loan from a Private Collection.
* Ayana V. Jackson, ‘Black Rice’, 2019, Archival pigment print on German etching paper, 109 x 106.3 cm. Courtesy of The Artist and GOWEN. © Ayana V. Jackson.
* Nouf Aljowaysir, ‘Salaf#2095’, 2020, AI-Augmented Archival Image, 38 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy of Nouf Aljowaysir and GOWEN. © Nouf Aljowaysir. taken in Artgenève Palexpo by @nouf.py

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Lehnert & Landrock: Relecture d’une archive coloniale

Lehnert & Landrock’s photographs shaped orientalist fantasies of the Middle East for European markets. Their images circulated widely, flattening identities and turning the region into a single, homogenous “exotic” vision made to sell. Titles shifted, features were altered, and subjects were left unnamed. What mattered was a romanticized view of the Orient.

This exhibition traces their role and the circulation of these images. While they may appear historical, they continue to haunt the present. These colonial archives are still sold today and became the only visual records I could find when searching online for my own lineage.

In Salaf (Ancestors), I use AI segmentation to erase these racist depictions, generating an absent dataset. I then retrain a model on this absence to show how easily AI can reanimate archives and reproduce the same colonial patterns today.

Exhibition documentation at Photo Élysée.

C’est la dernière semaine pour voir l’exposition — show ends Feb 1.

Merci à milieu pour l’invitation ♥️♥️♥️
@miserabilis @juliedayer @juliebonzon10 @nathalie.herschdorfer taken in Photo Elysée by @nouf.py

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