Hommages | Natalia Jordanova | Amsterdam Art Week
For Amsterdam Art Week 2025, Galerie Fleur & Wouter presents work by artist Natalia Jordanova. Jordanova’s artistic practice is a quest for possible worlds. Through the deployment of various media and strategies, she explores the intersections and sculptural possibilities in the exchange of the digital and physical. The translated materiality redefines the distinction between the flat and the 3-dimensional. Her work engages with the shift of these realms, weaving narratives of past accumulations and future speculations.
Her work from the past few years integrates generative artificial intelligence. Her interests lie in AI’s conceptual potential to contribute to historical continuity, amplify silenced feminist histories, question the role of AI in evolution, and critique its role in the technological evolution of the creative process.
Hommages
The works in the exhibitions are images and gestures–some human, some machine-made–exploring the tensions between homage, reinterpretation and authorship. Through the use of AI, Jordanova challenges the concept of hommage itself, navigating the blurred lines between respect, imitation, and satire and probes AI’s ability to honour the original truly. She examines several Dutch digital art collections as her source, questioning the representation of marginalized groups within historical narratives and public archives.
The concept of homage in visual art has deep historical roots, evolving from classical traditions to contemporary practices. Hommage in art refers to the act of paying tribute to another artist, movement, or style, often through direct reference, reinterpretation, or adaptation. The artist’s realm is speculative fiction in which the collaboration is intergenerational and intercontinental, transcending class, societal status, time, and geography and embracing aspects of inclusivity.
For the exhibition, Jordanova creates speculative collaborations with the work of female artists from the 15th to 20th centuries. In doing so, she critically examines the role of AI in the reinterpretation of historical works, questioning how technology can honour and distort the notion of legacy.
