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Systems of Residual Identity
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MANUEL SECHI
Systems of Residual Identity
Treated
The Beaulieu Matrix
The Human Residue
Urban Specimens
A Token of Devotion
Posted
Prototypes
Calculated Identities
Expired Passwords
Boundary Conditions
Bang
Logbook
Acquisitions
Distribution Network
Research Profile
Contact
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Systems of Residual Identity
Treated
The Beaulieu Matrix
The Human Residue
Urban Specimens
A Token of Devotion
Posted
Prototypes
Calculated Identities
Expired Passwords
Boundary Conditions
Bang
Logbook
Acquisitions
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  • Plates from an impossible archive

    This project builds a strict visual catalog of fake human bodies generated by Artificial Intelligence. Every synthetic figure is subjected to the cold, rigid rules of early scientific and medical photography. The human body stops being a living person and is processed purely as a standardized, measurable factory part.

    The series operates as an archive of a history that never happened. It takes fake people from the future and forces them into the antique visual style of the past. Within this grid, human anatomy is stripped of life and treated like an industrial blueprint, reducing human identity to a series of minor variations spit out by an algorithm.

    The rigid layout automatically normalizes any strange AI errors or digital glitches by filing them away systematically. By applying strict administrative order to something that does not exist, the grid ensures that the official credibility of the paperwork completely overrides the fact that the person inside it never existed.

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