New Farmer poses as a collection of documentary photographs from the 1960s that seem to reiterate the success story of the Green Revolution: genetic manipulation results in new crop varieties which result in bigger and better harvests.
As the story unfolds however, there are cracks. The images hover just slightly beyond believability until finally turning absurd. They are not the historical photographs they claim to be, but AI-generated images. The story itself, while bearing some resemblance to actual events, is also made up: this alternative version doesn’t end in the giant fields of monocultures that surround us today, but instead brings about oversized vegetables.
With absurdity and humor, New Farmer explores the way history is made and perceived through images and questions the dominant narrative of the Green Revolution.
