Anarchy in the AI by Brent Leideritz

20 May 2025 - 13 Jun 2025
11:00am - 05:00pm
FREE
First Site Gallery Storey Hall Basement, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne

In Anarchy in the AI Leideritz interrogates identity, nostalgia, and memory, producing works that raise questions about how identity is formed and expressed.

Leideritz, Brent. 2024. Anarchy in the AI polaroid IX. Adelaide, South Australia.

Brent Leideritz is an Adelaide based artist working in the expanded space of photography. Leideritz practice, founded in self-taught and experimental film-based photography during the 90’s and 00’s, incorporates digital mediums, utilising digital post-production and in this exhibition exploring ai-generated promptographic resolutions.

In Anarchy in the AI Leideritz interrogates identity, nostalgia, and memory, producing works that raise questions about how identity is formed, and how identity is oppressed or liberated through cultural structures, kin and communities.

Challenging constructed societal norms, and dated binaries of the past, their practice considers the politics of identity and aims to provide space to those that may be seen as ‘other’ to be seen and heard.

Self-identifying as a neurovariant, queer, goth, freak, Brent gives space for playful opposition, collaboration, gender queering and representation. Made manifest in their works – centred in creatively capturing the moment of connection and collaboration between photographer and individual subject – this in turn creates space for communal deconstruction and reconstruction of the symbolism, myth and narratives that exist within normative and conservative society.

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Anarchy in the AI by Brent Leideritz