INFERNO - VIOLENCE (Ümüt Yildiz)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
VIOLENCE - the theme delves into the Hellish realms where Violence and Lust intertwine in a macabre dance. The dominant red tones symbolize both the fiery passion of lust and the bloodshed associated with violence, creating a visceral visual experience.
The central imagery may depict the tormented souls within the overlapping circles of Violence and Lust, showcasing the consequences of their intertwined sins. Figures engaged in acts of violence driven by lustful desires could be portrayed in a chaotic yet captivating composition, capturing the essence of Dante's complex vision.
Music by Aleksandar Nikolic
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.