As I told you, they were made with a technique called solar etching, in which a light-sensitive metal plate is exposed to ultraviolet radiation and washed out with cool water instead of acid chemicals. The rest is carried out with a traditional printmaking process; oil-based inks on cotton paper that runs through the intaglio press.

The subjects come from photo archives I have been assembling in Attica: urban environments, vegetal and geological formations, inscriptions on architectural structures, public sculptures, and archeological artifacts in Kerameikos. I fed this visual material into generative algorithms that run on artificial neural networks. Loosely translated, this is a process of "breeding" images that follows a predictive system inspired by biological processes and game theory ...

Generated by Clouds ☁️ Etched by the Sun ☀️

Petros Moris (b. 1986) is an artist based in Athens. He has been nominated for the Deste Prize 2015 and has been awarded the SNF Artists Fellowship, the Onassis Foundation Scholarship, and the Delfina Foundation Residency. He has presented solo exhibitions in galleries and art spaces including Galeria Duarte Sequiera (Braga), Project Native Informant (London), Point Centre for Contemporary Art (Nicosia), Union Pacific (London), LilyRobert Gallery (Paris), ROOM E-10 27 (Berlin), SPACE (London), The Cyprus Embassy (Athens), and Onassis Culture (Athens). He has participated in group exhibitions including the 2019 Singapore Biennale (Singapore), the New Museum Triennial - Songs for Sabotage (New York), The Tides of the Century (Ocean Flower Island Museum, Hainan), the 7th Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki), Still Here Tomorrow (Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens), Digital Gothic (Centre d'art Contemporain, Delme), Tomorrows (Le Lieu Unique, Nantes), Geometries (Onassis Culture, Athens), The Same River Twice & The Equilibrists (Deste X New Museum, Benaki Museum Athens), the 2021 Athens Biennale - Eclipse (Athens). He has curated exhibitions and events at the Chisenhale Gallery (London), the Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Circuits and Currents (Athens) as part of the curatorial collectives SIM and Radical Reading. He has been part of the art collective KERNEL and co-runs the publication project AM.