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Installation view of "The Perfect Human" by Lilan Yang, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery Chen Zirui, Anna Condo, Uglyy Fruuit, icysaw, Jess Mac, Maciej Miliszkiewicz, Niklas Poweleit, Isabelita Virtual, Mind Wank, Lilan Yang May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by Galerie Met x Prompt Forum In collaboration with @verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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It seems the visitors are very attracted to Witness and Trauma Influencers by @mindwank! View them on @verse: https://verse.works/mind-wank Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery Chen Zirui, Anna Condo, Uglyy Fruuit, icysaw, Jess Mac, Maciej Miliszkiewicz, Niklas Poweleit, Isabelita Virtual, Mind Wank, Lilan Yang May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by Galerie Met x Prompt Forum In collaboration with Verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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Installation views of "Elections" and "Fucking Clowns" by Jess Mac, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery Chen Zirui, Anna Condo, Uglyy Fruuit, icysaw, Jess Mac, Maciej Miliszkiewicz, Niklas Poweleit, Isabelita Virtual, Mind Wank, Lilan Yang May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by Galerie Met x Prompt Forum In collaboration with @verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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Installation view of "Sunday School" by @a1111ac011d0, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Anna Condo Sunday School, 2024-2025 NFT on Ethereum Blockchain Unique 0.8 ETH on @superrare: https://superrare.com/artwork/eth/0x457CECB820a2bfCe02c8377D806d5878eE269d8E/83 Anna Condo Sunday School, 2024-2025 Dye Sublimation Print 106.7 x 60 cm Edition 3 + 2 AP Anna Condo’s Sunday School dismantles the fantasy of a self, replacing it with a figure assembled from digital rubble and a blue-velvet dress with a stiff white collar. The face isn’t hidden—it’s overwritten, remixed, refusing to offer the intimacy we’re conditioned to expect. Behind the figure, the schoolyard contains symbols of early formation: playground equipment, asphalt, and brick walls. These are the sites where norms are rehearsed, where rules are absorbed. But now they are empty, paused and digitally estranged—awaiting another version of childhood to emerge. Text by Clint Enns.

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⏰ Last 1.5 hours to bid on the 5 videos of The Perfect Human by Lilan Yang on @verse: Lilan Yang The Perfect Human, 2021 Single-channel digital transfer of 16mm film, black and white, sound. Original footage generated with GANs, physically fabricated as transparencies using laser printer and laser cutter, then digitally transferred. 🔗 https://verse.works/series/the-perfect-human-by-lilan-yang The digital transfer of The Perfect Human in 16mm has won the Award of Excellence at 37th Image Forum Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan (2023).

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Installation view of "Soledad" by Isabelita Virtual, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." "Soledad" is a very common female name in Spanish; it also means solitude. Soledad is the story of a specter who lives in isolation in nature but feels the desire to be with someone. The short film explores the theme of disconnection. It can be interpreted as a metaphor for someone living in a foreign country, for autism and the challenges of communication, or more broadly, it reflects on the human need to connect and the difficulties some individuals face in doing so. Ironically we feel alone in a hyperconnected society. Soledad was selected by OpenAI as part of Sora Selects screening in the Metrograph Movie Theater in New York in February 2025. Sales are live on @verse: https://verse.works/series/soledad-by-isabelita-virtual

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Witness #2 by @mind_wank, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Auction on @verse today 7pm CET: https://verse.works/series/witness-by-mind-wank This project satirizes the commodification of trauma within the attention economy. In On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag argues that repeated exposure to images of suffering can numb our capacity for genuine empathy. Drawing on contemporary social media practices and Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality, wherein simulations—staged or digitally constructed—supplant the “real,” this project intentionally blurs the line between authentic and artificial narratives in the age of AI. Between the superficial status posturing and the profoundly disturbing fictionalized events, something feels all too familiar, all too “real.” Now don’t forget to smash that like button and subscribe.

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Installation view of "Rezyklierung" by Niklas Poweleit, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Niklas Poweleit Rezyklierung, 2022 Single-channel video, color, stereo sound 00:01:05 What would the game of telephone look like if it was played by machines? Niklas Poweleit’s Rezyklierung [Recycling] uses three screens to explores how images shift as they pass through different modes of perception and translation. A car moves down a road on the first screen. The second screen breaks this down into data, while the third presents an AI’s attempt to reconstruct the moment from its digital remains. What returns is not the same image, but something altered—reshaped by process and digital interpretation. Text by Clint Enns. Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by Galerie Met x Prompt Forum In collaboration with Verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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Thanks to Anna and the @verse team for setting up this lovely exhibition page. ✍️ Make sure to read the amazing essay by Clint Enns: https://verse.works/exhibitions/synthetic-realities ⏰ Sales start tomorrow at 7:00 PM CET. Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery Chen Zirui Anna Condo (@a1111ac011d0) Uglyy Fruuit icysaw Jess Mac Maciej Miliszkiewicz (@mmiliszkiewicz) Niklas Poweleit Isabelita Virtual Mind Wank (@mindwank) Lilan Yang May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by Galerie Met x Prompt Forum In collaboration with Verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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Clip from “Soledad” by Isabelita Virtual, currently on view in the exhibition “Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery.” “I like being here” is the opening line of Soledad by Isabelita Virtual. Solitude in addition to feminist resilience is an equation for solace. To be close and far away at the same time, to have the space discover a version of yourself you didn’t know existed. The work demonstrates that self is no longer the excavation of a buried truth, but the conscious and continual act of self-construction—a becoming shaped not by what lies beneath, but by what one dares to create in the open. You’ll like being there, too. Text by Clint Enns. Stills go on sale on @verse tomorrow. DM if you’d like to inquire about the video: https://verse.works/series/soledad-by-isabelita-virtual

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Installation view of "Elections" by Jess Mac, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery Chen Zirui, Anna Condo, Uglyy Fruuit, icysaw, Jess Mac, Maciej Miliszkiewicz, Niklas Poweleit, Isabelita Virtual, Mind Wank, Lilan Yang May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by GalerieMet x Prompt Forum In collaboration with @verse Sponsored by Kaiber https://verse.works/series/fucking-clowns-by-jess-mac

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The cult of authenticity is a form of moral hygiene. It punishes contradiction, demands transparency, and disguises itself as empowerment. But what if “you do you, girl” and no one likes you? What if you discover at your absolute core isn’t “all your unique gifts, skills, abilities, interests, talents, insights, and wisdom” but a rotting black mould that is boring, cruel, incoherent, and untalented? The demand for authenticity isn’t actually about truth, it is about discovering the safest and most sterile version of yourself. The so-called “authentic self” is not a source—it’s a symptom of a society that is desperate for anchors in a sea of instability. But it’s precisely in instability—those liminal, unformed zones—that subjectivity emerges as something dynamic, speculative, and even dangerous. To insist on a “true self” is to enforce a self-containment. It is to foreclose becoming in favour of coherence. It is the logic of the border, not the threshold.

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Nowhere does this become more absurd than in the conversation around artificial intelligence. To demand that AI—or artists using AI—be “authentic” is to demand that something that is not fully formed, define its own conditions and boundaries of being. Yet, we must also consider the artists whose work is being ingested and fragmented by algorithms: are they—these creators whose labor is scraped, extracted, and commodified—regarded as “authentic”? Are we to believe that a photo of dog shit is more “authentic” than an illustration or painting by an underpaid artist simply because one is labeled with more certainty and more likely to be statistically represented in future iterations? ... Be sure to read the amazing text by Clint Enns: https://galeriemet.com/exhibitions/synthetic-realities-authenticity-in-the-age-of-ai-imagery

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Installation view of the current exhibition “Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery,” on view until June 7. Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery Chen Zirui Anna Condo (@a1111ac011d0) Uglyy Fruuit icysaw Jess Mac Maciej Miliszkiewicz (@mmiliszkiewicz) Niklas Poweleit Isabelita Virtual Mind Wank (@mindwank) Lilan Yang May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin In collaboration with @verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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The Perfect Human by Lilan Yang, releasing on @verse this Thursday. Inspired by Jørgen Leth’s arthouse classic The Perfect Human (1968), Lilan Yang’s work of the same name feeds a low-res YouTube rip of the original into StyleGAN2, forcing the machine to reflect on “the perfect human.” Over 9,000 stills are scraped, processed, and trained into a synthetic fever dream of “perfection.” The result isn’t a remake but a machine hallucination: a visual remix where smooth surfaces hide broken data. These generated images are then dragged back into the physical world as 16mm transparencies, completing a loop from film to algorithm and back. It’s not a question of what the perfect human is—but what happens when a machine tries to make one. Text by Clint Enns. Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by GalerieMet x PromptForum In collaboration with @verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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Trauma Influencers by @mindwank, releasing soon on @verse: https://verse.works/series/trauma-influencers-by-mind-wank There is violence in watching—and a profound violence in the hunger to watch. Mind Wank’s Witness series confronts the grim appetite of our image economy for smiles and selfies. The horror is not the juxtaposition—it is the plausibility. This work does not mourn, it exposes; it reveals how collective trauma can become a backdrop for our own self-aggrandizement. As the towers fall, we can see how history dissolves into spectacle in an endless doom scroll—tragedy repackaged as content. Text by Clint Enns. Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery Chen Zirui, Anna Condo, Uglyy Fruuit, icysaw, Jess Mac, Maciej Miliszkiewicz, Niklas Poweleit, Isabelita Virtual, Mind Wank, Lilan Yang May 24 – June 07, 2025 Mariannenstrasse 33, 10999 Berlin Presented by Galerie Met x Prompt Forum In collaboration with @verse Sponsored by Kaiber

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P7-8: Friedrich Andreoni, Somewhere, 2025. Friedrich Andreoni: Another Chance Curator: Giulia Giacomelli Exhibition: May 22 – 31, 2025 Venue: Alchemilla, Palazzo Vizzani Lambertini Sanguinetti, Bologna, Italy With the support of: Fondazione del Monte and Fondazione Zucchelli Special thanks to: Banca di Bologna In collaboration with: Corniolo Art Platform, Associazione L’Altra, Galerie Met, and Fondazione Claudia Cardinale Photo credits: Leonardo Morfini

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P5-6: Friedrich Andreoni, Another Chance, 2025.

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P3: Friedrich Andreoni, Better off alone, 2025. P4: Friedrich Andreoni, Flooding 1 and Flooding 2, 2025.

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Friedrich Andreoni ’s solo exhibition "Another Chance," curated by Giulia Giacomelli, is currently on view at the historic Palazzo Vizzani Lambertini Sanguinetti in Bologna. If you’re in Bologna, be sure to visit! Cracks in the walls, frescoes blackened by soot, hidden or partially vanished architectural elements become, in Friedrich Andreoni’s investigation, tangible signs of temporal stratification. These often marginal traces are transformed into true narrative devices, opening up a sensitive reflection on the themes of memory and oblivion, understood not only as historical categories but as perceptual phenomena. The intervention conceived for the exhibition is structured as an immersive journey, in which sound, light, and sculpture intertwine in a perceptual and sensory tapestry. P1: Friedrich Andreoni, no one n.one, 2025. P2: Friedrich Andreoni, Untitled (Reflector series), 2025.

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