Paris Photo 2025

13 - 16 Nov 2025

THIS IS NO FANTASY is delighted to present the work of Jackson Farley at Paris Photo 2025.

Jackson Farley uses technology to achieve a finish that feels closer to painting than print. Moving between the physical and digital, his work explores memory, authorship, and the mutability of history. Embracing both traditional and digital techniques, process is central to his practice – disrupting and reconfiguring form, and manipulating the past, present, and future.

Scanned images undergo a chaotic digital process: distorted through rudimentary 3D mesh tools, exported into animation software, and then reassembled into collage-scapes. AI-enhancers then stitch the fragments together, creating an uneasy collaboration between artist and machine.

Farley’s work reflects on how future artists may think, act, create, and connect, while inviting us to confront the fragments of personal histories we carry, the myths we inherit, and the ones we must remake to move forward.

THIS IS NO FANTASY is delighted to present the work of Jackson Farley at Paris Photo 2025.
Jackson Farley uses technology to achieve a finish that feels closer to painting than print. Moving between the physical and digital, his work explores memory, authorship, and the mutability of history. Embracing both traditional and digital techniques, process is central to his practice – disrupting and reconfiguring form, and manipulating the past, present, and future.
Scanned images undergo a chaotic digital process: distorted through rudimentary 3D mesh tools, exported into animation software, and then reassembled into collage-scapes. AI-enhancers then stitch the fragments together, creating an uneasy collaboration between artist and machine.
Farley’s work reflects on how future artists may think, act, create, and connect, while inviting us to confront the fragments of personal histories we carry, the myths we inherit, and the ones we must remake to move forward.

HAVE A GOOD DEATH, 2025: JACKSON FARLEY
HAVE A GOOD DEATH is a nosedive into the tiny, often brushed-over “deaths” we experience within ourselves – the little, necessary moments where we shed outdated beliefs, old versions of ourselves, and everything that no longer serves us. It’s about breaking free from personal histories, accepted narratives and archaic hierarchies to move towards a new you – you got this!
The centerpiece is a large-scale woven Jacquard tapestry, aptly named after the show. It’s an anxious meditation on death – not just the literal kind, but the metaphorical “little deaths” we must all endure. It’s like your own internal ‘How to Hero’s Journey Handbook’, starting from left to right. The protagonist (the figure with the staff riding the horse in front of the towers) has just made it past LEVEL 1 where Colonial Spaceships shoot through utility pole Jesus’, barely missing the Not All Men Museum for men – great success! They’ve dodged the Pirate Elon motorcade and the swamp-loving, wall-building Shrek Trump. Now, it’s time to flip the script on accepted narratives. Cue Harambe the Gorilla with a lightsaber. Eve and her girl gang who are absolutely getting their revenge. Oh, and the American Dream? Just that – a dream. Wade through all that and they’ve made it to The Great Dividing Wall. Don’t worry, only tiny toy soldiers are guarding it – shouldn’t be too difficult to break it down, they always seem to eventually fall. By moving past all this loaded iconography and the histories that have shaped us, we can finally shed our earthly distractions and be reborn – or, in this case, become a very happy skeleton in front of a cheese moon who’s basically conquered it all. HAVE A GOOD DEATH isn’t about celebrating endings; it’s about embracing them. Letting go of systems that hold us back so we can rebuild ourselves stronger than before.
Viva la little deaths! – Jackson Farley, 2025

Paris Photo is the world’s largest art fair dedicated to photography and image-based art. With a rich and challenging program, Paris Photo presents a project that reflects the strong connection it has with museums worldwide and explores new territories. Institutional exhibitions, roundtable discussions, performances, educational projects, and image education initiatives unfold during the fair.

The 28th edition takes place from 13 to 16 November 2025 at the Grand Palais, Paris FR.

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