The exhibition brings together three artists who integrate robotic or computer-based systems into the processes of painting and image-making. Moving between programming and brushstroke, screen and surface, their works explore what images are in a time shaped by machines and code.

For the first time we introduce works by Liat Grayver (*1986), among them her series Traversing the Threshold, composed of robotics-assisted ink drawings on rice paper. Computer-generated images are broken down into individual brushstrokes and executed by a robot. The delicacy of the ink on paper contrasts with the industrial precision of the machine, highlighting the intersection of gesture, code, and material.

On view are oil paintings by Gretta Louw (*1981), from her series Artificial Organisms and Animate Machines. An algorithmically generated orchid serves as the point of departure and is painted alternately by the artist and an industrial robotic arm. Between each canvas, an AI filter subtly ‘perfects’ the previous result, creating the starting point for the next work. The orchid, formed through evolution and cultivation, becomes a site of exchange between aesthetic desire, machine precision, and painterly gesture.

Lauren Moffatt (*1982) shows Beyond Her Mesh, in which female figures are appropriated from art objects and reimagined via 3D scanning and simulation technologies. Physical surfaces are replaced by digital skins. These hybrid bodies are virtually photographed, painted and integrated into a virtual dimension accessible through augmented reality. Moffatt’s project reflects on how digital structures shape, and at times distort, our perception of the human body.