From June 12 to Sept. 14, 2025, the large ledwall on the ground floor of Palazzo Citterio in Milan’s Grande Brera will host Parallax, a generative video work created by Irish conceptual artist Kevin Abosch (Los Angeles, 1969), known as one of the pioneers in the use of artificial intelligence in the creative field. The work was created by Kevin Abosch Studio in collaboration with the National Museum of Digital Art, under the curatorship of Clelia Patella.
The installation takes the form of a visual meditation that investigates the relationship between perception, technology and identity, and is part of the cycle of exhibition projects curated by the National Museum of Digital Art, which has been animating the digital space of Palazzo Citterio since December 2024.
"With Parallax, the National Museum of Digital Art aims to promote a creativity that combines innovation and memory. Kevin Abosch’s work," says Maria Paola Borgarino, Director of the National Museum of Digital Art, “demonstrates how new technologies can dialogue with historical heritage, reinterpreting it and offering visitors new keys to interpretation.”
“I enthusiastically welcomed,” emphasizes Kevin Abosch, "the opportunity to present Parallax at Brera, a place that has always been linked to observation, from the astronomers of the historic Observatory to today’s museum visitors. The work continues my research on technological vision and the subtle tensions that emerge when human and artificial intelligences share the same perceptual horizon. Parallax does notseek a resolution, but opens a space of ambiguity, inviting the viewer to pause in uncertainty."
"What is particularly fascinating about Parallax," says Clelia Patella, “is the way Abosch manages to materialize the invisible tension between memory and the future. Looking at these rotating fragments, one finds oneself wondering whether we are looking at relics of a future that has already happened or prototypes of a past that never existed. It is in this temporal vertigo that the work reveals its most authentic power: to transform the viewer from a passive observer to an active participant in the construction of meaning.”
The choice of Palazzo Citterio, and in particular the proximity to the Brera Astronomical Observatory, is not accidental: Abosch offers with Parallax a new digital cosmology, which shifts the gaze from the scientific observation of the universe to a fluid and becoming mental landscape. In a time span of about three minutes, the video shows a slow, hypnotic rotation of suspended structures, suspended in a limbo that blends technological and organic elements. The shapes evoke recognizable yet indecipherable objects: fragments of human bodies, mechanical tools and wrecks of space missions. The visual complexity of the work urges the viewer to become an active part of the interpretive process, stimulating an imaginative engagement to make sense of what is observed. The work’s title recalls the optical phenomenon of parallax, an effect whereby the apparent position of an object changes depending on the observer’s point of view. In astronomy, parallax is a fundamental principle that has made it possible to measure the distance of stars by observing them from two different points on Earth’s orbit. Parallax represents yet another chapter in the program of video and digital exhibits on Palazzo Citterio’s ledwall, which began last December with the work Renaissance Dreams - Chapter 1: Painting by Refik Anadol, continued with Madame Pinin by MASBEDO, and now enriched by Abosch’s vision.
Kevin Abosch, born in 1969, is an Irish conceptual artist who uses both traditional media and generative techniques, with a focus on photography and machine learning (artificial intelligence). His artistic production challenges traditional conceptions of identity and value, addressing ontological and sociological questions. In 2024 he directed AM I?, the world’s first feature film made entirely through artificial intelligence. His works have been exhibited in major cultural and civic institutions internationally, including the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the National Museum of China, the Redbrick Museum in Beijing, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, and the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien).
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| At Milan's Palazzo Citterio, Kevin Abosch's generative video Parallax, between technology and identity |
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