Black Cat
€305 EUR
Zaman Archives: Golden-Age Covers stages a dialogue between past and present, reimagining SWANA visual heritage through a custom generative model trained on mid-20th-century Arabic record sleeves. The project responds to contemporary datalogical, structural, and aesthetic biases that misrepresent or erase Arab identities through image technologies such as AI. Reanimating the look and feel of a golden age shaped by pan-Arabism, romance, style, and a distinctive Arabic modernity. By bringing past and present into contact, it exposes the slippages of memory, where nostalgia turns camp and futuristic, refracting history through speculative archives that are at once playful, nostalgic, and alive.
2025
Unique generative artwork
Print on paper
25.4 × 25.4 cm
Edition 1/3
About the Artist
Ameera Kawash