Eva Prada is a visual artist working with both digital mediums and traditional techniques, primarily oil painting. With over 15 years of experience creating digital art for industries such as video games and technology, her focus has evolved in response to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. This shift has led her back to oil painting, where she seeks to capture the historical moment in which humanity stands at a crucial turning point. In this scenario, humans are playing god, creating new intelligences and accelerating our inevitable advance toward a radically transformative and unknown future.
Currently, Eva Prada is working on her series titled "Technology Supercycle", where she explores the uncertainties and questions raised by artificial intelligence. As AI reshapes the art world, how artificial intelligence is changing the art world is a topic of growing interest. Eva Prada is intrigued by the uncertainties surrounding AI. The debate on whether AI art is the future, reflects the critical questions her work explores along with the passivity with which we embrace these technologies, unsure whether they will lead us to salvation or doom. Her work delves into essential themes of contemporary technological art, a field that questions the relationship between humanity and technology.
Through a blend of figurative techniques and contemporary themes, Eva Prada seeks to provoke thought and discussion about the impact of technology on our lives. Her use of contemporary figurative art aligns with the resurgence of figurative art and allows her to focus on the human experience, capturing the essence of this pivotal era in human history. Eva Prada challenges the boundaries between the classical and the futuristic, addressing themes such as art about artificial intelligence and art about technology and the future, while drawing the attention of figurative art collectors and curators interested in these pressing issues.
Oil on piece of canvas mounted with silver thread on reclaimed wood frame, 89 x 57 cm | 35 x 22.4 inches
This study is inspired by a photograph, highlighting the unifying elements of the silver thread and reclaimed wood frame. The torn canvas symbolizes the character's soul.
