“There was something deeply unsettling about staging this scene, watching the black-clad figures become each other's echo. one standing, one lying - a perfect inversion. the pink carnations scattered around them like dropped memories, too delicate to hold. the mountains in the distance seemed to hold their breath, waiting to see which figure would break character first. i wanted to capture that precise moment when performance art bleeds into genuine grief, when the line between artifice and authenticity dissolves completely. the inspiration came from studying the work of pina bausch, particularly her piece 'café müller' - how she used repetition and stillness to create emotional devastation. but here, i twisted it further, made it more claustrophobic, more painfully intimate. the pink vase in the middle serves as both memorial and mockery - a centerpiece for this theater of recursive loss..”
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.