VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — generative portrait by Systaime

ARTWORK DOSSIER / 2026

VISAGES DE
PORCEL(AI)NE

Six generative video portraits bring Limoges porcelain, Korean ceramic traditions and contemporary technologies into dialogue.

GWANGJU · 5 SEP–15 NOV 202616TH GWANGJU BIENNALEUCCN MEDIA ART PAVILION / G.MAPACQUIRED BY THE CITY OF LIMOGES
06VIDEO PORTRAITS
9:16PORTRAIT FORMAT
4KHIGH DEFINITION
2026CITY OF LIMOGES ACQUISITION

UCCN PAVILION / G.MAP / SOUTH KOREA

16TH GWANGJU
BIENNALE.

5 SEPTEMBER — 15 NOVEMBER 2026

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE is presented at G.MAP in the UCCN Pavilion of the 16th Gwangju Biennale.

The exhibition, Mondiacult Scape: Nothing of the Cities is lost, brings together ten artists to explore urban memory, cultural heritage and the voices that persist through change. Its curatorial presentation is signed by Kim Hana, G.MAP curator.

Formed by around ten UNESCO Creative Cities, the pavilion consortium connects cultural preservation with contemporary artistic practice. The UCCN Pavilion is listed in the Biennale’s official pavilion programme.

Created in collaboration with Limoges, a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art, the six video portraits mark the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and France. The work belongs to the City of Limoges collection.

At G.MAP, living porcelain faces place material memory in motion: cracks, repairs and transformations become part of identity. Six simultaneous screens bring human presence, ceramic heritage and artificial image-making into dialogue.

G.MAP · Exhibition rooms 1–4 · Free admission

MONDIACULT SCAPE / EXHIBITING ARTISTS

TEN ARTISTS.
SHARED CULTURAL MEMORIES.

Systaime exhibits alongside Andro Eradze, Etsuko Ichihara, Kang Yiyun, Kim Hankyul, Lee Leenam, Orkhan Mammadov, Philippe Cohen Solal, Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Ugo Arsac.

Film, kinetic installation, virtual reality and generative imagery offer different approaches to memory and transmission. Within this exhibition, VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE connects the porcelain heritage of Limoges with Korean ceramic traditions through a series of changing digital faces.

Explore all ten artists and works on G.MAP ↗

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

MATTER,
MEMORY,
TRANSMISSION.

Matter is not invoked as mere ornament: its milky whiteness, translucency, delicate reliefs, fractures and shifts of light shape the very identity of the figures, dissolving the boundary between body and ceramic.

Each portrait arises from an encounter between the porcelain traditions of Limoges — their rigour, precision and sense of decoration — and Korean ceramic legacies, which carry another relationship to matter, emptiness and gesture.

Artificial intelligence acts as one medium among others: not to imitate artisans’ gestures, but to explore new forms, create imperceptible movements and weave connections between references from different places and eras.

What is transmitted is never reproduced unchanged. It is received, passed through, and made alive again.
01

MATTER & IDENTITY

Whiteness, translucency, fractures and light form an almost mineral presence.

02

DIALOGUE OF TRADITIONS

Limoges, Korean heritage and contemporary technologies: places, eras and gestures meet.

03

FRACTURE & REPAIR

The visible break becomes a sign of resilience and a line of light.

04

METAMORPHOSIS

Identity is built layer by layer in a perpetual becoming.

VIDEO WORKS / 2026

THE
PORTRAITS

02 VIDEOS · 9:16 · CONTINUOUS LOOP · 4K
01 / APORTRAIT A — LIMOGES ↔ GWANGJU22 SEC · 9:16 · 4K · LOOP
02 / FPORTRAIT F — LIMOGES ↔ GWANGJU22 SEC · 9:16 · 4K · LOOP

DISPLAY SYSTEM / 2026

A MODULAR
INSTALLATION.

The six works can be presented on screens, tablets or phones adapted to the venue. Their slow movement, direct framing and silence invite attention to the transformations of matter and the circulation of light.

NATURE
Generative video installation
COMPOSITION
Six video portraits
PROCESS
Artistic research, AI, image creation and video composition
FORMAT
Portrait 9:16 / HD / 4K
PLAYBACK
Continuous loop
ACQUISITION
City of Limoges