Series / AI-assisted archive / 2025-2026

False Restorations

Archived images reassembled through Photoshop, ComfyUI, Z-Image Turbo, memory, and machine interpretation.

Series / AI-assisted archive / 2025-2026

A collection of painterly AI-assisted works created from old archived source images, reworked in Photoshop and regenerated through ComfyUI with Z-Image Turbo. The series transforms archival material into intimate, unstable interior scenes where bodies, memory, and machine reconstruction merge into fictional paintings.

These works are not attempts to restore the archive, but to disturb it. The images move between painting, memory, and machine reconstruction. Figures appear inside quiet rooms, surrounded by portraits, furniture, windows, animals, and fragments of domestic life.

I am interested in the moment where an image stops being a document and becomes a ghost of itself. The archive here is alive, corrupted, theatrical, and uncertain: beauty, error, intimacy, and distortion exist together.

Painterly reconstructed figure reclining beneath a window in the False Restorations series by Mehran Ahmadi

Two reconstructed figures and a black cat seated in an unstable painted interior by Mehran Ahmadi

Fragmented standing figure rendered as an imperfect AI-assisted painting by Mehran Ahmadi

Quiet reconstructed room with a seated figure, mirror, and fading figures by Mehran Ahmadi

Theatrical interior of layered figures, paintings, and machine artifacts by Mehran Ahmadi

Intimate painterly portrait reconstructed beside a window by Mehran Ahmadi

Standing figure surrounded by painted portraits and a black cat in an AI-assisted interior by Mehran Ahmadi

Painterly AI-assisted archival interior with a seated figure, framed painting, and distorted sculpture by Mehran Ahmadi

Seated figure beside a mirror and plant in a muted fictional painting by Mehran Ahmadi

Figures assembled inside a room filled with unstable painted portraits by Mehran Ahmadi

Reconstructed seated figure merging with a black cat and machine artifacts by Mehran Ahmadi

Two pale figures seated together beneath a distorted framed body by Mehran Ahmadi

Figure viewed from behind among portraits, a window, and altered furniture by Mehran Ahmadi

Process note / Archive reassembled

The body is not restored; it is reassembled through paint, artifact, memory, and machine interpretation. Technology becomes atmosphere, like dust on an unfinished painting.