ANDREA CIULU
Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor | AI Showcase | 2025
ON THESE STREETS
Andrea Ciulu was born in Rome, Italy, in the 1980s. With a background as a writer and visual artist, he has spent the last twenty years working in the creative industries in roles of creative direction.
His artistic work in the field of AI post-photography is an ongoing exploration of the limits of memory and our perception of reality—a research process that harnesses technology and its inherent limitations, blending the familiar with the uncanny, nostalgia with bewilderment.
He has released two major collections, On These Streets and AM, both exploring the possibilities of black-and-white post-photography, merging AI with analogue aesthetics. Another series, Seaborn, is a reminiscence of Andrea’s childhood in a coastal town. He has also experimented with AI video through the short series OTS Mixtape and Daily Bread.
Andrea’s work has been exhibited in Rome, Berlin, Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Mexico City.
ON THESE STREETS
ON THESE STREETS
“I use generative technology to explore the mechanisms of memory and the unconscious in the human mind. My practice with AI—both still and video—often incorporates a sense of nostalgia or elements of analogue media.
On These Streets is a post-photographic series that taps into the phenomenon of “borrowed nostalgia,” a broader Information Age experience where the boundaries between real and artificial memories blur. This is encapsulated in the widespread “I grew up on these streets” meme, which highlights a collective nostalgia for places and experiences that are, in essence, fictional yet hold a profound emotional truth.
The artwork in this series is characterised by a dreamlike, almost vertiginous quality, with Escher-like geometries starkly presented in black and white. This stylistic choice underscores a perspective on memory as an inherently edited and distorted version of reality—a construct that is both utterly convincing and fundamentally impossible.”