Louisa Clementbecoming lost

The dream (and nightmare) of the perfect human being! The “Representative” is tight-lipped: “Don’t mention it,” she says curtly, smiles in a slightly blasé manner and then maintains a stubborn silence. There are now five of these doll bodies programmed with AI, all of them modelled perfectly on the likeness of their creator Louisa Clement and produced in collaboration with a Chinese company specialising in the manufacture of sex dolls and with the Chair of Computational Linguistics at the Universität Saarbrücken. “Louisa,” the “Representative” created by the artist Louisa Clement, is for precisely this reason also somewhat uncanny: fed with the contents of the artist’s smartphone and connected to the internet as well, she does not simply reproduce prefabricated answers to visitors‘ questions mechanically, but continually learns and develops ever more complex character traits. In her exhibition and in the book on the occasion of the Bonner Kunstpreis, Louisa Clement now addresses just how far-reaching the possibilities of manipulating human DNA have already become today. Drawing on a scholarship in Paris made possible by the art prize, she has developed the almost ten-minute film “off-target-effect,” which, in a mixture of arresting texts, laboratory footage and computer sequences, tells of the dream – and the nightmare – of the human being who is perfect in every respect.

Exhibition:
Kunstmuseum Bonn, 22/2 – 16/6/2024