- Phillip Toledano
- From the Series Unknown America
- archival inkjet print
- 21 x 20 in
- Inv: 2025.7
Statement from Philip Toledano:
"Another America
Truth in America has been slowly dying over the last decade. The country is consumed with conspiracy theories.
For millions, facts are a choice. For millions, history is a choice.
The arrival of AI is the next stage in the demise of truth. We can recreate the world as it never was. For every conspiracy theory, there can be visual proof.
Convincing evidence that makes the lie real.
‘Another America’ takes this idea, and creates a history that never existed. A world complete
with people, events, and disasters, couched in the veracity of the past.
Did this really happen? Is this real history ?
The images are simultaneously familiar and strange, much like the world in which we live."
Philip Toledano Bio:
Toledano was born in 1968 in London, to a French Moroccan mother and an American father. He grew up in London and Casablanca.
He received a BA in English literature from Tufts University in Boston.
Toledano considers himself a conceptual artist: Everything starts with an idea, and the idea determines the execution. Consequently, his work varies in medium, ranging from photography to installation, sculpture, painting and video.
- Current Location: CS.R1.SH2.B62