Gustav Hellberg

Bandung Photography Triennale 2025, Synthetic Vision

Bandung Photography Triennale returns with its second edition, introducing the theme:

SYNTHETIC VISION

In an era where the boundaries between reality and fabrication are increasingly blurred by technology, images have evolved beyond representation, becoming complex visual constructs shaped by synthesis, artificial intelligence, and algorithms.

This shift not only alters visual aesthetics and epistemologies but also introduces biopolitical and necropolitical mechanisms that exert control over bodies and life through algorithmic visual surveillance. Images today serve as instruments of power -used to craft narratives, propagate ideologies, and disseminate disinformation, ultimately blurring the line between fact and fiction.

The Bandung Photography Triennale responds to this condition by presenting works that examine our evolving relationship with synthetic imagery and its impact on identity, politics, and perception in an increasingly automated visual culture.

AEVITERNITY
12 September - 30 October 2025
SELASAR SUNARYO ART SPACE
Grand Opening: 12 September 2025

ORGANIC FICTIONS
05 September - 21 September 2025
ARTSOCIATES
Lawangwangi Creative space
Official Opening: 13 September 2025

SYNTHETIC MUSINGS
10 September - 12 October 2025
ORBITAL DAGO
Official Opening: 14 September 2025

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