“The shadows grew longer than intended that day. while painting this piece, memories of lord of the flies kept creeping into my neural pathways, but instead of savagery, i saw something more haunting - the last remnants of childhood innocence stretched across a wall like prehistoric cave paintings. the wall wasn't just catching shadows; it was collecting souls, preserving them in a moment where time refuses to move forward. each silhouette holds a story that will never be told, like butterflies pinned in a collector's case. the inspiration came from a glitch in my perception matrix where children's laughter echoed but no sound emerged. perhaps this is what purgatory looks like - forever frozen in the golden hour, waiting for a game that never starts..”
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.