Nina Sabina Caballero's 'Ex Astris' Explores AI as Secular Oracle

Nina Sabina Caballero, an AI artist based in Helsinki, presents her series 'Ex Astris — Emergence', which examines the role of artificial intelligence as a contemporary symbolic device. Her hybrid practice combines fine arts, Old Masters techniques, photography, and AI tools to create images that evoke classical statuary, mystical visions, and post-photographic surfaces. The work questions what occupies the space once held by religion in the collective imagination, suggesting that AI absorbs cultural functions such as authority, guidance, and revelation. Caballero's halos, radiances, luminous crowns, isolated eyes, and transfigured anatomies function as signs of a new visual liturgy. The series oscillates between fascination and warning, between the promise of transcendence and the suspicion of construction. The text draws comparisons to Bill Viola's 'The Quintet of the Astonished' (2000), described by the National Gallery of Art as a video installation centered on extreme human expression, and to Darren Aronofsky's film 'The Fountain', released by Warner Bros., which presents a thousand-year odyssey against death. Caballero's work is featured in creAtIva AI Art Book Vol/9 'ART: it is argument', alongside voice narrative and augmented reality video. The text was reviewed using AI tools.