Nouf Aljowaysir’s Ceremonial Ancestors (2025) is a new iteration of her ongoing series, developed from her Salaf (meaning ancestor in Arabic) project, which uses AI to interrogate colonial-era photographic archives. For this iteration, rather than photographs of human subjects, Aljowaysir turns her attention to images of African sculptures and artefacts. Drawing from the online Ross Archive of African Images at Yale University Art Gallery, the work comprises wall-mounted terracotta-coloured tablets with laser-etched imagery on their face, and an accompanying short video. By using AI tools to erase and reconfigure figures drawn from historically biased datasets, Aljowaysir transforms absence into a form of resistance, inviting reflection on the persistence of orientalist narratives within digital and historical records.