Dávid Biró
Trust the Grid

2026.04.01. – 04.24.
Puccs Contemporary Art

Official event of Budapest Photography Festival

Opening:  2026.04.01.  18:00-19:30

reCaptcha is a reverse Turing test used on online interfaces to filter out robots, and at the same time, by solving puzzles, we also teach artificial intelligence (e.g. self-driving car algorithms). Thanks to the learning process, reCaptcha gives users more and more complex puzzles, so human and machine cognitive abilities are essentially competing with each other. The resulting photographs are complex playful picture puzzles that foreshadow a turning point in favour of machine visual perception compared to humans.

With his works, Dávid Biró not only follows this transformation as a passive user, but also actively, with a playful approach, tries to get in front of the technologies that affect the fabric of societies. Biró’s works are commentaries on the era of manipulated imagery, surveillance, phishing and disinformation.