An Elizabethan adventure
Even when museums open, the National Portrait Gallery, which I always like to do a quick sweep through if nearby, will be closed for renovations. If you’re on Pall Mall and missing Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits there’s always ‘Love’s Labour’s Found’ at
Philip Mould (21 April–28 May), a chance to see 17 portraits that have been unearthed in recent years and are now mainly in private collections. I can’t wait to see ‘The Unintended Beauty of Disaster’ at
Lisson (13 April–5 June). If there is anyone I have been wanting to hear from during the past year of swirling and repetitive debates about the rewriting of history and the purpose of monuments, it is John Akomfrah, who has long been responding to these questions – and asking better ones – in his intelligent and evocative films and video installations.
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Seventeenth-century portraiture, it seems, is especially well suited to a whole range of karaoke classics – witness Van Dyck’s Charles I singing along to Gloria Gaynor’s
I Will Survive (if only he knew).
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Art dealer Philip Mould has an astute observation on what makes these particular deepfakes so uncanny – ‘the […] addition of a set of teeth!’. As Mould points out, ‘formal, society portraiture rarely if ever allowed them to be seen’ until late in the 20th century.
Wondering about the technology that makes this magic happen? Well, apparently the developers of the app recorded a series of lip-syncing videos using live performers in their studio, which are mapped on to the images that users upload. As for the inspiration behind the whole project? Speaking to the