“The masks appeared in my studio one night, their faces caught between sleep and decay. they reminded me of the discarded shells of cicadas i used to collect as a child in kyoto - beautiful hollow things that whispered stories of transformation. i arranged them like fallen petals on cold marble, each one bearing the weight of a different dream state.
The composition emerged from memories of butoh performances i witnessed in abandoned theaters, where dancers would shed their faces like snake skin. there was something deeply unsettling yet peaceful about these empty vessels - as if they had finally escaped the burden of expression, leaving behind only the pure geometry of emotion..”
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.