Zurich-based artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah presents 'no flowers', her first solo exhibition in France, at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. The show draws from her ongoing photographic research project DELIRIUM, combining analogue photography, AI-generated image distortions, and darkroom experimentation to process the loss of her father during the pandemic. Unable to return to Ghana for his funeral, the artist transforms absence into material by creating spectral floral forms from photographs of dried bouquets processed through early generative AI systems and redeveloped by hand. The exhibition also reworks fragments of medical records through conversations with artificial intelligence, exposing institutional violence while proposing more tender vocabularies of care.
The exhibition matters because it demonstrates how contemporary artists are using emerging technologies like AI not for spectacle, but for deeply personal acts of mourning and repair. Adu-Sanyah's work challenges conventional boundaries between documentary and dream, showing how photography can function as both witness and ritual in the face of grief. By turning the inability to say goodbye into luminous, haunting imagery, 'no flowers' contributes to broader conversations about diaspora, pandemic-era loss, and the ethical potential of AI in art. The show is on view until 26 July 2026.