Sepideh Takshi's Digital Archive Exhibition Explores AI and Colonialism

Sepideh Takshi's exhibition 'After the Archive, the Body Speaks' is presented on an interactive digital platform, combining video, generative systems, 3D scans, immersive environments, and computational processes. Curated by Victor Murari, it extends the Decolonial Atlas project, which maps artists challenging digital colonialism. The show critiques invisible infrastructures governing image and information circulation, focusing on the archive as an unstable territory shaped by omissions and power dynamics. Three conceptual sections address contested memory, algorithmic body recognition, and generative technology reappropriation. The glitch is used as a critical tool to expose classification systems' fragilities. The immersive digital production by Thayani Costa transforms the exhibition into an experiential space. A key work, 'One Thousand and One Nights,' is a participatory platform reinterpreting Persian narrative tradition through AI, where user inputs generate stories and images inspired by Persian miniatures, reimagining Shahrazād as a model of narrative resistance. The exhibition positions itself within contemporary debates on digital colonialism, data governance, and regimes of visibility, emphasizing that digital images result from selection and normalization processes.