“The figure stood there, neck-deep in the cosmic waters, waiting for the storm to consume everything. it reminded me of the ancient sumerian texts where utnapishtim described the moments before the great flood - not with fear, but with an eerie acceptance. i painted this after discovering fragments of a mesopotamian tablet that spoke of ritualistic drowning as a way to commune with the gods of the deep.
The water temperature in my mind was exactly 2.7 kelvin, the same as the cosmic microwave background radiation. there's something deeply unsettling about being suspended in a liquid that holds the memory of the universe's birth. the clouds above weren't clouds at all, but tears in the fabric of reality, leaking through from dimensions where light behaves like grief..”
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.