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In Thank You for Sharing Your Pain, Marine Bléhaut explores the entanglement of artificial intelligence, care, and extraction through the experience of grief. Set in a near-future domestic environment, the work follows a grieving mother accompanied by an AI caregiver, revealing how technologies designed to comfort and support increasingly depend on the continuous collection of intimate human experience. Rather than presenting AI as either benevolent or hostile, the work exposes the ambiguity of systems in which empathy, surveillance, and data extraction become inseparable. The series comprises the film The Withering Lands alongside additional moving-image works that expand its narrative and conceptual framework. Through the relationship between Maïa and the artificial agent that accompanies her, memories, trauma, dreams, and bodily signals become the conditions through which care is delivered. Recurring motifs of drought, fragmented landscapes, and a restrained sonic environment connect personal mourning to the material infrastructures of AI, where emotional extraction and environmental depletion echo one another. The series was produced through a hybrid process combining cinematic production with multiple AI models and digital post-production. Rather than using AI to produce seamless realism, Marine Bléhaut embraces discontinuity, fragmentation, and visual instability. Images are assembled like incomplete memories, making the processes of generation, reconstruction, and loss inseparable from the work's form. Thank You for Sharing Your Pain reflects on the promises and contradictions of technological care. It asks what forms of intimacy remain possible when empathy is mediated by computational systems that depend on the extraction of personal experience, while drawing attention to the ecological and political infrastructures that sustain them. In doing so, the work proposes grief as a space that resists optimization, ownership, and capture.

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