In the Hollow of the Stones (a Counterfactual History)

“In the Hollow of the Stones (a Counterfactual History)” is a series of works produced at AlUla and commissioned by the RCU. Following a residency organized by Afalula and the Sigg Foundation, I attempted to escape the temptation of the monumental by articulating, through scattered devices, the richness of mineral erosion with the generativity of AI, a becoming-image of stone. The aim of this report was to rethink the relationship between tradition and modernity by generating an infinite number of counterfactual possibilities from pre-Islamic archaeological artifacts.