Biography of Sonia Gil

I am a Rio de Janeiro artist, graduated in Architecture, based in Berlin, crafting digital images, understanding the risks and dangers of the disruptive times we live in, while at the same time finding it very exciting. Drawn to Berlin's diversity, I seek fresh projects and inspiration.

In an age of intelligent systems and automated aesthetics, I decided to work with the power of the still image. Stillness as resistance. Not silence, but pause. Not nostalgia, but presence.

I use AI not to outsource creation. I understand AI as a collaborator—helping me understand and unfold my work in new directions. It creates friction through glitches and hallucinations that prompt me to question my practice and embrace uncertainty. Working with AI is like walking a strange terrain: seduction and suspicion, wonder and warning. But I do not hand over authorship—I stay close. I guide, interrupt, question. I do not seek answers in my work; I work with images the way one might hold a question.