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 exhibition are images and gestures—both human and machine-made—exploring the tensions between homage, reinterpretation, and authorship. Through the use of AI, Natalia Jordanova challenges the notion of homage itself, navigating the blurred lines between respect, imitation, and satire and probing AI’s ability to truly honour the original. She examines several Dutch digital art collections as her source, questioning the representation of marginalized groups within historical narratives and public archives and the possibility of closing the data gap.
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 her exhibition at Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Natalia creates speculative collaborations with the works of female artists spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. In doing so, she critically explores AI’s role in reinterpreting historical works, questioning how technology can honour and disrupt the notion of legacy.
