Exhibition Launch: Traces Between Worlds By Lucas Console-Verma

Lucas is a painter who is interested in appropriation and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. His process involves selecting old masters’ paintings and transforming them using online generative AI systems, distorting the original image as a way of studying composition, colours and subjects. He then uses these images to create paintings that open up a dialogue between the traditional and the contemporary.

“The exhibition will consist of two large-scale oil paintings made during my time in Dubai. Both works explore the idea of painting as a living surface — where figures, memories, and environments emerge from layers of mark-making.

Working from personal photographs gathered during my stay, the paintings evolve through a process of building and mending: abstract gestures laid down instinctively are gradually shaped into moments of form, echoing bodies. The act of painting becomes a way to overlap between different worlds — between old master visual languages and contemporary experience.”