An unstaged opera about the work of Alberto Giacometti and his vision of the human form, described by Sartre as “halfway between being and nothingness”.

Using generative AI tools almost exclusivley, The Glade reinterprets the essential themes of his work: fragmentation, absence, objecthood, and his obsession with the uncanny, the inhuman, and the impossibility of truly capturing reality. Whilst drawing a parallel between early 20th-century condemnations of Surrealism as degenerate and contemporary anxieties surrounding AI-generated art.

By embracing the uncanny and grotesque nature of these technologies, the work subverts their perceived emptiness, transforming it into a contemporary rereading of Giacometti’s own philosophy of fragmentation and absence. In this respect, the album attempts to reposition that philosophy within a contemporary post-human context.