Sofia Crespo × Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration

Sofia Crespo x Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration collects, for the first time, their five joint projects produced between 2023–2025, which won them the 2025 Arab Bank Switzerland Artist of the Year Award. An interview with the artists and four critical essays provide insight on a hybrid practice where technology functions as an evolving ecology. The authors explore how the artists bridge cutting-edge machine learning with an array of photographic practices, integrate botanical study with tactile traditions, in order to show that Crespo and Ridler move beyond the digital sublime to offer a profound attentiveness to the contemporary moment.