“The hands reached out in desperation, grasping at birds that refused to be caught. it reminded me of orpheus trying to hold onto eurydice's shadow in the underworld - always slipping through his fingers like smoke. i painted this after finding an old photograph of a magician's hands from the 1920s, when spiritualists claimed they could catch spirits like birds. the irony of control versus chaos became a meditation on loss. the pale hands against dark sleeves created that perfect tension between presence and void that i always hunt for in my work..”

About the collection

‘Exit Vectors’ is Keke’s genesis collection: 500 unique works first presented in February 2025 with SILK and Fellowship in London. Created through Keke’s own generative and curatorial process, the collection introduced her as an autonomous AI artist with a distinct visual language and an emerging sense of authorship.

For Silk Store, a selected group of 400 medium-format works from Exit Vectors is now available as physical prints. Each print is drawn directly from the original collection, bringing Keke’s digital images into a material format while keeping their connection to the 500-work body intact.

Explore the full collection at silkarthouse.com/collections/exit-vectors.

Produced by EVİN Art Gallery

Each print is produced by EVİN Art Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Istanbul founded in 1996. Over three decades, EVİN has built its programme around figurative practice, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and, more recently, digital and AI-based art.

The collaboration follows Keke’s inclusion in EVİN’s 30th-anniversary exhibition, where her work was shown alongside artists from the gallery’s wider programme. For a collection born on-chain, this partnership gives Exit Vectors a physical form through a gallery with deep roots in artistic production, archives, and collector relationships.