Marabaha

This project investigates a speculative dialogue between the photographic practice of Man Ray and the visual language of the Bauhaus, mediated through contemporary artificial intelligence technologies. Man Ray (1890–1976), working primarily in Paris during the 1920s, became a central figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements, renowned for his experimental approaches to photography, including solarization and the invention of the rayograph. Parallel to this, the Bauhaus, founded in Weimar in 1919 under Walter Gropius, pursued an integration of art, design, and technology, developing a visual vocabulary characterized by geometric abstraction, structural clarity, and the unification of form and function. Although Man Ray and the Bauhaus artists operated within the same historical moment of European modernism, there is almost no record of a direct encounter between them (Man Ray was introduced to the aesthetics of the Bauhaus by Ré Soupault (born Meta Niermeyer), but his photographic artworks do not bear clear influence therefrom).