Artists

Bennett Miller

Press release

Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition in Paris of new prints by Bennett Miller, on view from January 15 through February 22, 2025, at 4 rue de Ponthieu. An Academy Award–nominated director, Miller uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to create imagery which he renders into pigment and gelatin silver prints. This practice emerged following his five-year immersion in a documentary filmmaking project that investigates how the forces of technological evolution are reshaping human experience. The film is yet to be released. In 2022 Miller was invited by OpenAI to beta-test an early version of DALL•E. He discovered the AI model to be a new medium with unfathomed potential. The resultant body of work introduces avant-garde implications of AI through the lens of a previous revolutionary invention—photography. Despite its resemblance to photographs from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, this body of work is not photography. Rather, it is an extended expedition into a new realm of art, made using a tool with unprecedented characteristics. As Benjamín Labatut describes in Gagosian Quarterly, “The gravity of the past lends its weight to these images. It’s as if they’d been pulled out from darkness, conjured from the void with the aid of technology.