The Steps – Redemption in Motion - 3
Video, 2025
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About the artwork
The steps are both a challenge and a promise. Rising infinitely into an unknown sky, they symbolize the modern journey of self-discovery, growth, and the courage to face change. The Cripples find themselves at the bottom, hesitating. Some linger in fear of the climb, while others ascend with unsteady resolve. This part of the series explores redemption – not as an act of perfection, but as an ongoing process. The steps demand vulnerability, and the Cripples confront the uncertainty of redefining their relationships and roles in the world. Some walk alone, others lean on one another, their journeys reflecting the evolving dynamics of connection in a world that often feels fragmented. Each step taken is an act of defiance against stagnation and a hopeful leap into the unknown. The series captures the tension between fear and transformation, asking: What do we risk when we rise, and what do we lose if we stay? Credits: Ümüt Yildiz & Simon Toni Rowas
Sound Design 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.