I capture moments that never happened.Blending generative technology with the visual language of photography, I create scenes that feel real yet belong to no past, present or future.Each image is a fragment of an alternate reality: a lost archive of places and faces that never existed, yet feel eerily familiar.
Fabio Matos Cruz is a visual artist based in Lisbon working with generative AI as his main medium.He creates images from the space between memory and imagination. Blending generative AI with a photographer's eye, he constructs alternate realities that feel familiar yet unreal: fragments of moments that never happened.In series like "Faces" and "Shadows", his work explores presence through absence, where faces blur, shadows linger and meaning emerges in what's left unseen.His work was recently exhibited in "Perspectives" (2025), a group exhibition in Buenos Aires showcasing new media artists.
In "Pastoral", I explore the delicate intersection between human presence and the natural world through the lens of generative AI.These images are moments that feel achingly familiar yet never quite happened.They are fragments of a pastoral life that exists only in the liminal space where technology meets our deepest longing for connection with nature.
“Faces” explores the tension of presence, where faces slip between clarity and mystery, never fully revealed.The images feel like glances, not gazes, moments of recognition rather than resolution.It’s a series that asks: do we need to see a face to feel a life, to hold a story?
"Shadows" is an exploration of mood and atmosphere. Faces fade, leaving only gestures and glimpses, echoes of presence that feel universal.In this quiet dance of light and darkness, the shadows speak.Intimacy is found in what remains unseen.
