Open now at the Photographer's Gallery, London.

Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams,
but you are not in mine

Fri 07 Mar 2025 - Sun 15 Jun 2025

Hallucinations of empire and the AI archive

I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine is a new exhibition and commission by the collective Planetary Portals at The Photographers’ Gallery from 7 March 2025. Interrogating archival photography and artificial intelligence (AI), through a series of films, the exhibition weaves together the environmental landscapes of 19th-century mining of gold and diamonds in South Africa with the scripting process of AI.

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