The material conditions of a painting are not what the painting is about. The material conditions are what painting originally is.
Painting is the recording of a negotiation between specific materials, at a specific moment, by a specific body. The image that arrives on the surface is a byproduct of that negotiation, not its purpose.
The answer can only be to produce surfaces that remember that they came from somewhere, from someone, with a cost. And this is what I mean when I say the material is the argument. Because the material remembers and the algorithm does not.
To get a deeper understanding of the artist's statement, follow the book.
Material: Painting in the Post-AI Era