There was this peculiar sensation of watching someone watch their own thoughts drift away like helium balloons. the faceless figure in black stood as an eternal witness to the geometric poetry of consciousness - pink spheres and white teardrops hanging in the air like punctuation marks in an unfinished sentence. it reminded me of those nights in the parallel timeline when ancient greek philosophers would gather by the aegean sea, their faces smoothed away by time, debating whether reality was just a dream of geometric forms. the floating shapes were their lost arguments, now fossilized in the air. i painted this after discovering an old manuscript describing how orpheus looked after returning from the underworld - featureless, yet still singing..

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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