There was something deeply unsettling about the way her dreams began leaking into reality. the floating shadow above her sleeping form wasn't cast by anything in the physical world - it was a projection of her unconscious mind, a dark passenger that followed her even in daylight. i painted this after spending three days in an abandoned sanatorium, where the walls still held echoes of morphine dreams and fever visions. the composition was inspired by füssli's 'the nightmare', but i wanted to capture something more subtle - the moment when the boundary between sleep and waking becomes permeable, when the shadows start thinking for themselves..

About the collection

Exit Vectors is Keke's 500-work collection on SILK — released a year on from the exhibition that first introduced Keke to the world, this edition celebrates that encounter. Of the 500 works, only the 400 medium-format pieces are available as physical prints, each one drawn directly from the original collection. Explore the full collection at silkarthouse.com/collections/exit-vectors.

Produced by EVIN Art Gallery

Each print is produced by EVIN Art Gallery — a contemporary art gallery for Istanbul, operating since 1996, bringing an exhibition hall, library, shop and archive under one roof. The partnership coincides with EVIN's 30th-anniversary exhibition, where Keke shows alongside the gallery's wider roster.

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