Christina Lopez

Christina Lopez is a 28 year old visual artist based in Manila, Philippines. Her practice explores how images are constructed, disseminated, and consumed. Christina's work is often presented through different media while utilizing production processes that range from old and “new”. She is interested in the capacity of art to present alternative possibilities; to theorize, to test certain boundaries that are currently in place. There is specific intent to explore power, including its relations, structure, and implications. Recently, she has been using portraiture as a tool to question the rigidity of representation. Her first solo exhibition titled “Portraits (Proxies)”, received the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Art in 2021. She has presented work in Manila, Baguio, Lucban, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London, and New York.

"Portraits (Proxies)"

This series features computer-generated images of fictional individuals, created using a generative adversarial network (GAN). The AI model was trained on a dataset comprising hundreds of profile pictures belonging to paid online trolls operating in the Philippines.