<p>By merging contemporary aesthetic codes with those of earlier periods, Justine van den Driessche investigates how images contribute to the construction of collective narratives and cultural memory. Fictional landscapes, hybrid temporalities and the fluidity of gender identities emerge through disenchanted figures, visual fictions haunted by the logic of obsolescence, whether technological, aesthetic, or environmental. Her work has been featured in several artistic events across Europe, most recently at Le Hangar in Brussels as part of the AImagine &ndash; Photography and Generative Images exhibition in 2025. She holds a Master&rsquo;s degree in Visual and Spatial Arts from Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Universit&eacute; Paris 8. In 2024, she was selected as a laureate by Le Hangar for the Prompt &ndash; Photography and Generative Image project, chaired by art historian Michel Poivert.</p>

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Justine van den Driessche - AI

<p>The Progress explores the blurred boundaries between photography and painting, reimagined through the lens of artificial intelligence. Revisiting baroque aesthetics, these images evoke a youth marked by post-Covid fragility, navigating a world where the promises of progress remain unfulfilled.&nbsp;By merging past and speculative futures, the series stages an existential metamorphosis: a youth in flux, suspended between heritage and mutation. The imperfections born from AI&rsquo;s generative process reflect a paradox&mdash;technology striving for perfection but revealing instead its limits. This becomes a poetic meditation on image authenticity in an era of synthetic beauty.&nbsp;The title nods to Fragonard&rsquo;s The Progress of Love, reinterpreted as The Progress of the Image: a body in transformation, a new generation where image and identity molt and regenerate. Art becomes a living organism&mdash;hybrid, aesthetic, and deeply technological.</p>

Justine van den Driessche - AI

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