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CORE-001-No Brainer—NB-05-C–Dream Latency 
H 48.98 W 35.28 D 18.9 in - Anodized white aluminum - x1 - 10.1” Screen - x1 - Raspberry Pi Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f A stream of hyperactive imagery AI-generated palm trees and synthetic paradises flashes across the miniature screens a visualization of an algorithm absorbing reconfiguring and iterating. The machine does not look it ingests its logic dictated by speed rather than contemplation. Time fractures within the work. The relentless digital flow is countered by the stillness of physical postcards remnants of an older form of looking one that lingers that trains the eye rather than overwhelms it. These frozen images wedged into the industrial frame function as anchors in a space where recognition is automated and perception is outsourced. The aluminum frame, stripped to its bare functionalism, exposes the circuitry of this process. Wires coil and sprawl, an umbilical infrastructure feeding the machine’s gaze. The small accessories—wedged postcards, a blue plastic corner protector embossed with a palm tree—extend this tension between digital consumption and tangible presence, between artificial memory and sensory longing. The work operates at the threshold of perception where imagery no longer exists to be looked at but to be processed. What remains of experience when recognition is automated becomes a residue a ghost of familiarity embedded in endless circulation. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

Sleeping Beauty by @ttuummyy_ is out 💛🤍 available on Spotify [LINK IN BIO] We're so proud to announce the release of Sleeping Beauty, a musical piece by Tumy, produced exclusively as the soundtrack of our project CORE 002 SLEEPING BEAUTY, blending with the art pieces by @ceciledigiovanni and a textual piece by @cedric.fauq . . Co-curation @big_appple x @encore.label Production @encore.label Event producer @big_appple Art Producer @nicolasdau Graphics @univers.circus 3D conception @_iso9001_ . Cover @ceciledigiovanni @davidbroner Photography @lola.pertsowsky Retouching @elsa.abg [PRODUCED BY ENCORE©]

CORE 002 SLEEPING BEAUTY, avril 95 . Cécile Di Giovanni, 2024 Painted wood, SLA 3D printing, chrome paint, 150g glossy coated paper. H 122 W 81.5 D 6 cm . Artwork @ceciledigiovanni in view at @big_appple . Co-curation @big_appple x @encore.label Production @encore.label Event producer @big_appple Art Producer @nicolasdau Graphics @univers.circus 3D conception @_iso9001_ Photography @lola.pertsowsky [PRODUCED BY ENCORE©]

CORE-001-No Brainer-Life 
H 1080 W 1920 px Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f The final piece of the show, the video distills existence into a relentless cycle of stock and AI-generated imagery, flashing at 0.3-second intervals. Birth, love, death, rendered with the sterile clarity of mass-produced visuals, become emotional triggers, universal yet impersonal. This rapid-fire montage collides with Malibu’s slow, atmospheric soundscape, stretching time even as the images compress it. The contrast suspends the viewer between recognition and detachment, life reduced to an algorithmic loop. A meditation on digital sentimentality, the film explores whether a life assembled from pre-existing images can still feel real, or if its familiarity only underscores its emptiness. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

CORE-001-No Brainer—NB-07-G-You Are Consciousness 
H 10.39 W 7.95 D 1.57 in - Anodized white aluminum - 1x A5 UV Print on Dibond with a Matte Finish Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f A luminous figure radiates from the screen, its digital aura dissolving into the surrounding frame. The phrase “You Are Consciousness” lingers in pixelated clarity, a hyper-compressed spiritual affirmation reconstituted through the aesthetics of internet enlightenment culture. The image, both ethereal and mass-produced, collapses transcendence into a flat, shareable format, like a mantra endlessly circulating in algorithmic loops. The aluminum structure acts as a containment unit, suspending the image in a space between revelation and redundancy, a mechanical altar to the commodification of inner awareness. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

CORE-001-No Brainer-NB-00-C-Sentient Loop 
H 78.74 W 24.02 D 39.76 in - Powder-coated steel and aluminum server rack - x2 - 65” Screens - x2 - USB Sticks Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f This final server rack completes the trilogy, amplifying the tension between technological infra-structure and simulated human interaction. Two 60-inch screens display AI-generated women,endlessly reciting scripted phrases by Shumon Basar, a loop of perfected corporate empathy. Their expressions never waver, their presence inviting yet hollow. Optimized warmth becomes a function, communication reduced to automation. The black server rack, usually hidden, is fully exposed, its cables revealing the raw circuitry behind these synthetic personas. Here, affect, automation, and architecture merge into a seamless yet unsettling system: where speech is infinite, but meaning dissolves into repetition. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #ar

CORE-001-No Brainer-NB-06-B-You Are Cute 
H 48.98 W 35.28 D 1.57 in - Anodized white aluminum - 1x A0 UV Print on Dibond with a Matte Finish Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f This piece extends the aesthetics of algorithmic affirmation, where self-help and social media validation collapse into hyper-designed reassurance. “YOU ARE CUTE” appears monumental yet impersonal, a compliment without a speaker. Rendered in fire and clouds, the phrase oscillates between sincerity and simulation. Framed in aluminum like commercial signage, it contrasts the ephemeral with the rigid, while details like a butterfly and skull-bead chain add an ornamental, almost devotional touch. The work questions how digital validation is circulated, received, and ultimately aestheticized into empty sentiment. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

CORE-001-No Brainer—NB-07-F–She Would Never Leave 
H 10.39 W 7.95 D 1.57 in - Anodized white aluminum - 1x A5 UV Print on Dibond with a Matte Finish Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f A still from an algorithmic love story, where emotion is pre-scripted and endlessly replayed. The anthropomorphic figure, caught mid-sentence, delivers an assurance that no longer belongs to a person but to the mechanics of engagement. Flattened into pixels, affection becomes a function; rendered, looped, and optimized for interaction. The surrounding smudges and screen glare reveal an intimacy mediated through touch, yet always obstructed by the glass. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

CORE-001-No Brainer—NB-03-A—You Are Light 
H 35.28 W 25.59 D 9.45 in - Anodized white aluminum - 1x A1 UV Print on Dibond with a Matte Finish Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f Part of an ongoing series on digital validation, You Are Light stages the tension between forced positivity and underlying detachment. The inflated typography mimics self-optimizing rhetoric, while the sad emoji disrupts the illusion of affirmation. Framed like an advertising display, the work recalls the aesthetics of corporate emotional engineering, weightless, hyper-visible, and ultimately empty. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

CORE-001-No Brainer—NB - 07 - E – Eternal Stare 
H 10.39 W 7.95 D 1.57 in - Anodized white aluminum - x1 - A5 UV Print on Dibond with a Matte Finish Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f A face smoothed into artificial perfection, caught between familiarity and simulation. The cartoon filter distorts expression, turning emotion into a performance, gaze into spectacle. The condensation veil adds a tactile layer, mimicking presence yet emphasizing distance. It’s an image engineered for engagement, endlessly looping, always looking, never truly seen. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

CORE-001-No Brainer—NB-01—Soft Bodies H 81.1 W 2874 D 7.87 in - Anodized white aluminum - x1 - 65” Screen - x1 - USB Stick Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f A 60-inch screen, suspended on industrial aluminum bars, loops a 15-minute compilation of young women on TikTok, their bodies hyper-feminized, their faces eerily softened by an AI-powered cartoon filter. The effect is unsettling—a clash between adult-coded sensuality and the saccharine innocence of animated characters. The filters erase imperfections, smoothing skin, enlarging eyes, and distorting proportions, pushing the already unattainable aesthetics of online beauty into something disturbingly infantile. The videos are deliberately slowed down, stretching fleeting, algorithm-driven moments into something contemplative, almost hypnotic. This manipulation of time heightens the unease, emphasizing the gap between digital fantasy and physical reality. The seductive postures, intimate gazes, and stylized femininity contrast sharply with the childlike, doll- like faces, exposing an aesthetic paradox that feels both alluring and deeply uncanny. Positioned in the space with its backside fully visible, the screen’s exposed wiring and structure underscore the physicality of the device, reinforcing the idea that the medium itself is just as important as the message. The apparatus is not just a passive display—it is the infrastructure that carries and distorts these digital identities, much like the platforms that dictate how beauty is consumed and performed. This piece exists within a broader reflection on the way technology reshapes human representation, questioning the visual culture of social media, the gamification of self- image, and the erasure of bodily imperfections in favor of algorithmic desirability. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art

CORE-001-No Brainer—NB - 04 - A — You Are Free 
H 35.28 W 25.59 D 1.57 in - Anodized white aluminum - x1 - A1 UV Print on Dibond with a Matte Finish Artwork by @basilefournier / @b_489534_f Encased in an industrial aluminum frame, “You Are Free” presents freedom as both a declaration and an illusion. A metallic chain with sharp spikes dangles from the structure, evoking restraint masquerading as ornamentation. The bold, gothic text dissolves into vapor, its instability mirroring the fleeting nature of digital autonomy. Below, a hyperreal crying emoji amplifies the tension between performative emotion and genuine distress. The rigid frame, contrasted with the ethereal typography, questions whether digital spaces liberate or merely aestheticize captivity. No Brainer - October 2024 - The Hill - Los Angeles Curated / Produced by @encore.label 
Texts by @shumonbasar 
Soundscape by @malib9 
Art Producer @nicolasdau 
Pictures by @jamesorlandooo 
Location @thehillstudio #b_489534_f #nobrainer #show #encore #exhibition #shumonbasar #malibu #thehill #losangeles #art