Tala Madani: Daughter BWASM review – dirty pot shots of an evil mother and her AI offspring

WWhat is the opposite of perfect? Well, shit, according to Tala Madani. For years, the Iranian-born U.S. artist has been painting “Shit Mom,” a fetid smearing of a human figure intended as a subversion of feminine, maternal ideals. And in the painter’s latest exhibition, Shit Mom has a new child in her care: she has adopted an AI daughter.

The catch is immediately obvious: the AI ​​robot represents perfection; Shit, mom, that’s impossible. As they interact across the screens, the gleaming mechanical perfection of the daughter—born motherless, hence the exhibition’s title, “Daughter BWASM,” or “Born Without a Shit Mom”—becomes marred with dirty brown stains. The more the mother cares about her daughter, the more they corrupt her. The robot can’t stop itself from modeling itself after her mother.

The show is one of the first cases of using AI as a tool And Motif in a large London gallery. Madani treats AI like a part of modern society that needs to be treated, accepted and…