This is a triptych, created as part of the "Impotent Justice" project. In recent years, the women's rights movement in China has been burgeoning. Concurrently, the topic of "forgotten and altered women in history" has sparked widespread discussion on the Chinese internet. From various web pages, we can see that this topic started gaining traction since 2021 and has been visible on both the Chinese and English internet. This prompted me to create the work "Impotent Justice."

In "The History of Sexuality," Foucault states, "We must reinterpret the entire history from the perspective of power relations." He also says, "Power and knowledge directly imply one another; power produces knowledge and knowledge produces power." This led me to reflect on how male-dominated technologies and AI today threaten women's legitimacy and rights, influencing women's perceptions of themselves. If knowledge is produced by AI, the accuracy of history becomes questionable. For instance, throughout history, the achievements of female scientists have often been attributed to their male colleagues. This phenomenon is so common that it has a name: the Matilda Effect.

Using web scraping, I saved numerous photos of ancient Greek sculptures from the internet. With code, I identified and cut out the heads from these photos, and then spliced them onto an image of the Goddess of Justice. I used CNN deep learning-supported gender recognition technology to determine whether the heads were female or male. If the head was identified as female, the programme applied a mosaic to blur it, thus satirizing the impotence of justice. Despite using a goddess to symbolize justice, it cannot even protect the justice of women themselves.
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