Erlösung - 4
Video, 2025
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About the artwork
Erlösung is a series that explores liberation, mortality, and the fragile threshold between collapse and transcendence. Through surreal and allegorical imagery, figures dissolve into dust, climb fractured structures of power, surrender to overwhelming forces, or stand illuminated in fragile moments of clarity. Each scene reflects on the inevitability of letting go and the human search for freedom — from societal constraints, from violence, and from the weight of existence itself. The series becomes a meditation on release, portraying both the pain and beauty of salvation in a world shaped by struggle and impermanence.
Sound by Ümüt Yildiz
Audio explanation
Listen to Ümüt Yildiz discuss this work.
Ümüt Yildiz is a lecturer of Creative Coding in Design at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and lives in Cologne and Berlin, where he has been exploring artificial intelligence since 2018. Outside of his teaching, he often collaborates with artists such as Cro, and Bilderbuch and brands such as Bulgari, Tods, and Vogue Italia, testing the limits of current technologies.
He participated as an exhibitor in the NFT Pavilion 2022 Venice Biennale. His work is characterized by themes of humanism and controversy through the use of original production. The intervention of artificial intelligence in the visual material of original production allows an interpretation of reality free from the mechanisms of rationalist self-determination of man, introducing the concept of "memory" of the machine, which does not preserve any experience paradigms or culture inherent in human nature. Visual works are created that catalyze the world of the irrational and the unconscious, where the need to create order is less, leaving room for a more intuitive and ancient vision of the subject.