My kingdom is another

In a context in which all actions and creations in the West have been doped for years by digital steroids, whether we are aware of it or not - there is even "algorithmic archeology" - we feel threatened and are living a new version of the 1927 film "Metropolis": we are instilled with a renewed fear of the Machine, which conveniently adds to our already full stock of fears.

We are immersed in the midst of the debate on the control of the vertiginous advance of artificial intelligence, worried that this "third industrial revolution" will destroy the form of "democratic" nation-state that we "enjoy".

Given the manifesto recently signed by more than a thousand technology companies worldwide to halt the advance of artificial intelligence, Santi Jimenez, like many artists, is making use of this tool.

Our artist, consciously problematizing his artistic activity -which is a constant in his already long career- in a time of new challenges to the sacred authorship of the artist in the era of "technical reproducibility" -a term already coined by Benjamin in 1939- presents us with a new mixed work, a "classic auratic" combination of manual drawing with digital drawing and machine creation, drawing generated by artificial intelligence.