Installation view and work of "Parallel daughter" and "Displace control" by @UglyyFruuit, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Available on verse: verse.works/series/capture-0… Uggly Fruuit Parallel daughter, 2025 Archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper 30 x 40 cm Unique Uggly Fruuit Displace control, 2025 Archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper 30 x 40 cm Unique Uglyy Fruuit’s Parallel daughter and Displace control present an unsettling dive into the world of AI-generated imagery. These works explore the moment when machine learning systems break away from polished imitation and slip into something more unstable—the realm of visual contradiction. Through these glitches and distortions, the system confesses its inhumanity. The results are weird, absurd, and strangely alive. Here is an alt-text description of one of the images in the series: The image depicts a person holding a small, two-story model of a house. The house is constructed from a light-coloured material resembling plywood and is partially covered with white and brown furry textures. It has small window panes, with the main structure appearing handmade and roughly finished. The person holding the house, seen from the side, has short, dark hair and is wearing a pink tank top. A pink wristband is visible on their arm. Surrounding the person are other individuals in casual attire; their expressions and positions suggest they are in a social setting, possibly an event or a gathering. 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 @GalerieMet x @PromptForum In collaboration with @verse_works Sponsored by @KaiberAI - #uglyyfruuit #ai #aiphotography #photography #gm

Installation view of "ADHD" by @MMiliszkiewicz, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Maciej Miliszkiewicz ADHD, 2025 Single-channel video, color, sound 00:01:30 A world where the backs of cars are indistinguishable from their fronts. Che, che, che, che, che check out Maciej Miliszkiewicz’s music video ADHD and join the chain gang. Keep an eye and an ear out for that electronic flute solo. 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 @GalerieMet x @PromptForum In collaboration with @verse_works Sponsored by @KaiberAI - #adhd #maciejmiliszkiewicz #ai #aivideo #galeriemet

Installation views of "The Perfect Human" by Lilan Yang, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Lilan Yang (b. 1997, Chongqing, China) is an artist and experimental filmmaker. Rooted in the materiality of 16mm film, their practice explores the flux of migration, the decay of memory and the intricacies of perception. Yang’s films have been exhibited at institutions including the RISD Museum and Foxy Production (New York), with installations at festivals such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival (UK), and MONO NO AWARE Film Festival (New York). A recipient of the Award for Excellence at Image Forum Film Festival (Japan), Yang has been awarded residencies at MASS MoCA, Baltic Analog Lab (Latvia), Millay Arts, and I-Park Foundation, among others. Yang holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. 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 @PromptForum In collaboration with @verse_works Sponsored by @KaiberAI - #lilanyang #ai #aivideo #galeriemet

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 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 @PromptForum In collaboration with @verse_works Sponsored by @KaiberAI - #rezyklierung #niklaspoweleit #ai #aivideo

Witness #2 by @mind_wank, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." Auction starts in about 3 hours on @verse_works: verse.works/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. - #witness #mindwank #ai #aiphotography #aivideo

Installation view of "Elections" by @JessMacAI, on view in the current exhibition "Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery." The American two-party system has become a theatre of the absurd, where voters are increasingly forced to choose the lesser evil rather than vote their conscience. The Democrats continue to shift rightward, leaving little meaningful opposition to the rise of authoritarianism. Figures like Trump and Elon Musk perform like clowns in a collapsing empire, distracting from the erosion of civil rights and democratic norms with spectacle and ego. Canada’s recent election, where many voted strategically to avoid becoming America’s metaphorical 51st State, only underscores how deeply this dysfunction reverberates beyond U.S. borders. Electoral reform, once promised by Canada’s Liberal Party in 2015, remains unfulfilled, in spite of former Prime Minster’s Justin Trudeau’s empty regrets. What’s left is political stagnation and growing disillusionment. Jess MacCormack’s work—digital or otherwise—cuts through this despair, offering raw, emotional insight. Elections is no exception. 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 @GalerieMet x @PromptForum In collaboration with @verse_works Sponsored by @KaiberAI verse.works/series/fucking-c… - #elections #jessmac #clown #ai #aivideo

Trauma Influencers by @mind_wank, releasing soon on @verse_works: verse.works/series/trauma-in… 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 @GalerieMet x @PromptForum In collaboration with @verse_works Sponsored by @KaiberAI - #traumainfluencers #mindwank #ai #aiphotography