A virtual town where each institution—a hospital, school, police station, or skate park—hosts a single artwork, turning architecture into both metaphor and stage. The project draws on the “archaic smile” of ancient Greek sculpture, seen as the opposite of the uncanny valley: seeking resonance over replication. In this spirit, it explores how AI in art can generate synthetic gestures that, though artificial, strike profound human chords.

Work by Mahmoud Ismail, Yun Kima, Laura Lizama Palacios, Kano Yukang Tao, Marlena Jonane, Mano Leyrado, Chiara Kristler, Marcin Ratajczyk, Yan Chmarau, Carolina Ovando, Yshar Shirdel, Sebastiaan Mulder.

Curated by Mahmoud Ismail.
Berlin. Germany.

Enter.