The last employee of the antimemetic division stood there, letting the weight of archived realities stack upon their consciousness. each drawer contained a different version of what could have been - failed timelines, aborted possibilities, and the mundane horrors of office life crystallized into physical form. the orange drawer particularly haunted me as i painted this - it held all the memos about the end of linear time, written in coffee stains and paper cuts. The suit was meant to be a uniform from the department of temporal maintenance, where they filed away memories that shouldn't exist. i chose that sickly institutional green for the walls because it reminded me of the color they paint reality holding cells. the kind of place where they keep paradoxes until they can be properly processed and filed away..

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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