The Search (Vikki Bardot)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
“That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Post-cinema
Sound design by Vikki Bardot
Audio explanation
Listen to Vikki Bardot discuss this work.
Vikki Bardot is a multi-faceted AI artist, previously a film industry professional, a musician, and a painter. Her style is influenced by the aesthetics of early photography and avant-garde movements. Often carrying intertextual references, her art usually focuses on the conception of time, femininity, body, and transformation.
She completed film school as the top student and later worked in film distribution, acquiring award-winning indie films and attending top film festivals worldwide for many years.
In 2022, she released some of the first examples of post-photographic AI collections and has become one of the all-time Top 10-selling artists on Foundation. Her work has been exhibited in cities across the globe, including New York, Rome, Los Angeles, Sao Paolo, Dubai, and Liverpool.