Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s understanding of memory as a constellation of fragments rather than a continuous account of the past, this project explores how generative AI transforms photographs of graffiti into imagined environments. A graffiti wall is never merely a surface: as Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey argue in different ways, space is produced through social relations, practices and movements. While graffiti itself remains subject to urban change, AI-generated scenes make the wall appear as a relatively stable anchor within an unstable world. Around it, AI invents possible social worlds that interact with our memories of places and experiences. By combining and animating photographic fragments, the videos compress space and time beyond the experience of browsing a folder of photographs, producing a surreal coherence between moments that never belonged together. The result is an ambiguous form of memory: grounded in places that existed, yet shaped by encounters and continuities that never took place.
Pictures taken in Getsemaní, Cartagena, Colombia
