Farrah Carbonell is a contemporary digital artist whose practice explores presence as something felt rather than explained. Working with generative systems informed by photography and cinema, her work focuses on embodiment, opacity, and the emotional architecture of images.
Through restrained still and time-based forms, Carbonell examines how bodies, faces, and gestures can hold atmosphere, memory, and intimacy without narrative resolution. Her images resist spectacle and clarity, favoring ambiguity, slowness, and what lingers beyond interpretation.
Rather than using digital tools as ends in themselves, her practice treats them as an extension of photographic thinking — a way to listen to the image, to allow motion, light, and suspension to reveal states of becoming.
Carbonell’s work sits at the intersection of digital art, contemporary portraiture, and experimental moving image. Her practice is rooted in questions of how presence is constructed, withheld, or misread in the digital age.
Central to her work are themes of:
Presence as atmosphere rather than performance
The body as a site of ambiguity and emotional residue
Opacity as a refusal of total legibility
Stillness and slow motion as forms of resistance
Influenced by photographic traditions, cinematic pacing, and post-realist inquiry, her work often features faces and figures that appear suspended — neither fully revealed nor erased.
