“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 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.