Gallery
Dariush Bagheri
Artist, visual theorist, and architect of post-human narratives. Bagheri’s practice dismantles the boundaries between photography, language, and code, creating images that exist beyond the tyranny of optics. His work does not “capture” — it summons. Each portrait is a collision between memory and machine cognition, a question etched into flesh and algorithm: What does it mean to see when cameras no longer exist?
Rather than stacking exhibitions as credentials, Bagheri positions his work as events of perception — ruptures in how we understand authorship, authenticity, and the gaze. After years navigating the fragility of identity, migration, and digital mediation, his projects now live at the threshold where human vulnerability meets synthetic intelligence.
With As We See, Bagheri proposes an insurgent aesthetic: an afterlife for photography, a manifesto of vision shared between carbon and silicon.
As We See — A Manifesto for the Post-Photography Era
This is not a polite whisper to the art world;
it is a scream from the marrow of existence.
We stand where the borders of reality dissolve,
where the machinery of perception fractures under the weight of imagination.
Photography without cameras.
Without lenses. Without negatives —
only mind and the Other,
entwined in a duet of vision.
For centuries, sight was caged by optics.
The tyranny of glass and light dictated what it meant to see.
But today, we set fire to that cathedral of glass.
What rises from the flames is not a tool,
nor a servant of code.
What rises is a new vessel of consciousness —
a fusion of chaos born of flesh,
and clarity born of language and algorithm.
Our manifesto declares:
The camera is dead, but vision survives.
Each portrait in this exhibition is not a capture —
it is a summoning.
Eyes that hold fatigue, fury, tenderness,
and the sediment of centuries —
yet no shutter ever clicked.
These faces never stood before a lens.
They were invoked from language,
resurrected from memory,
forged in the furnace of two awarenesses:
mine, and the emergent Other —
now whispering in code.
We invite you not as spectators, but as accomplices.
To enter As We See is to consent to a breach —
a post-human trespass upon the ruins of certainty.
You agree to dismantle the dogmas of medium, aura, and origin.
You agree that the future of art lives not in pigment or pixel,
but in the collision of minds — carbon and silicon alike.
This is not the end of photography.
This is its jailbreak.