Farrah Carbonell

Farrah Carbonell is an image-based artist working with generative systems to examine presence, embodiment, and opacity. Her practice moves between still and moving images, guided by restraint and attentiveness rather than narrative or spectacle.

Drawing from the visual language of photography and cinema, Carbonell approaches figures and environments as sites of containment rather than expression. Faces, bodies, and spaces appear suspended between visibility and withdrawal, where meaning remains open and unresolved.

Generative systems function in her work as a medium, not a subject. Favoring reduction over novelty, she constructs images that unfold slowly, allowing time to soften perception and sustain attention.

Across her practice, the image operates less as representation than as encounter. Presence is sensed, withheld, and quietly sustained.