A Non-Existent Archive, by Chilean artist Felipe Rivas, is an audiovisual exhibition composed of images generated by artificial intelligence that recreate scenes of affection between queer people and homosexual couples in Latin America at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Based on the absence of visual records documenting many of these experiences, the project uses AI as a critical tool to ask what stories were left out of the archives and what consequences this invisibility has on the construction of collective memory. The images do not intend to reconstruct real events, but to open a reflection on representation, memory and the historical gaps that LGTBIQ+ experiences cross.

Through this proposal, Felipe Rivas takes a look at the capacity of new technologies to dialogue with the past and question the ways in which historical narratives are constructed, inviting the public to imagine those lives, affections and bonds that rarely found a place in official archives.

This exhibition is part of the programme of Muestra•t, the cultural festival of MADO Madrid Orgullo, which celebrates its 20th edition by promoting projects that explore diversity, memory and new forms of contemporary creation.