neither artificial nor intelligent
2025-2023
Series of Oil Paintings
Current locations: Berlin, New York, and Istanbul
Dimensions for each: 70cm x 70cm (28x28 Inch)
The paintings can only be viewed and experienced in person. Once a painting is acquired, its photo will be made publicly accessible, while the rest of the paintings will remain offline and their images will appear blurred or partly visible.
A series of portraits of fictional, semi-fictional and existing artists on the verge of burn out, each based in a different city around the world and working with different medium: Kigali based kinetic art artist; Jakarta based Food Artist; Islamabad based Kite Artist; Gaza based Virtual Reality Artist; Kassala based Action Painter; Helsinki based Black and White Photo Artist; Seoul based Stop-Motion Artist; Lorain based Lettrist Artist; Izmir based Contemporary Artist; Baghdad based Glass Artist; Belfast based Mural Artist; Yaoundé based AI Artist; Alexandria based Spoken Word Artist; Beijing based Healing Artist; Mardin based Generative Art Artist; a Performance Artist based in Accra; an internet artist based in Tokyo; a Sound artist based in Diyarbakır; Dodoma based Socially Engaged Artist; an Installation Artist based in Luanda; a Video artist based in Yerevan; a Multimedia Artist based in Cairo; a Fresco Artist based in Bogota; a Meme Artist based in Mexico City; AR artist based in Havana; a Kinshasa based Post-internet Artist; Istanbul based Fanzine Artist; Ceramic Artist based in Baltimore; Fluxus Artist based in Doha; Street artist based in Samarkand; a Painter based in Berlin; a Conceptual Artist based in Detroit and more. This project is dedicated to all the artists who feel overlooked, undervalued, and not timely appreciated.
2025-2023
Series of Oil Paintings
Current locations: Berlin, New York, and Istanbul
Dimensions for each: 70cm x 70cm (28x28 Inch)
The paintings can only be viewed and experienced in person. Once a painting is acquired, its photo will be made publicly accessible, while the rest of the paintings will remain offline and their images will appear blurred or partly visible.
A series of portraits of fictional, semi-fictional and existing artists on the verge of burn out, each based in a different city around the world and working with different medium: Kigali based kinetic art artist; Jakarta based Food Artist; Islamabad based Kite Artist; Gaza based Virtual Reality Artist; Kassala based Action Painter; Helsinki based Black and White Photo Artist; Seoul based Stop-Motion Artist; Lorain based Lettrist Artist; Izmir based Contemporary Artist; Baghdad based Glass Artist; Belfast based Mural Artist; Yaoundé based AI Artist; Alexandria based Spoken Word Artist; Beijing based Healing Artist; Mardin based Generative Art Artist; a Performance Artist based in Accra; an internet artist based in Tokyo; a Sound artist based in Diyarbakır; Dodoma based Socially Engaged Artist; an Installation Artist based in Luanda; a Video artist based in Yerevan; a Multimedia Artist based in Cairo; a Fresco Artist based in Bogota; a Meme Artist based in Mexico City; AR artist based in Havana; a Kinshasa based Post-internet Artist; Istanbul based Fanzine Artist; Ceramic Artist based in Baltimore; Fluxus Artist based in Doha; Street artist based in Samarkand; a Painter based in Berlin; a Conceptual Artist based in Detroit and more. This project is dedicated to all the artists who feel overlooked, undervalued, and not timely appreciated.
Installation views from A Plus A Gallery, a selection from the painting series “neither artificial nor intelligent” in Venice. Parts from the review by Alessia Alfonsi: “What Ahmet Öğüt returns to us with "Neither artificial nor intelligent" is a radical gesture: bringing the face back to its opacity, to its resistance. In a world dominated by forced transparency, where every image is filed, duplicated, sold and profiled, the face returns to being a mystery. It's back to being flesh and brush, light and absence, presence and silence…. The protagonists of the exhibition are 10 portraits that highlight the problem of cognitive bays bringing visual prejudices to the surface. A pictorial, political and human experience, against the algorithmic logic of archiving… Öğüt takes the portrait, traditionally associated with power, celebration, identity, and empties it of its certainties: we don't know who the subjects are, we don't know if they really exist, we can't look for them online, we can't archive them… It is a look that questions, that makes you uncomfortable, that forces the visitor to stop, to listen to their prejudices, to remain in doubt. A healthy doubt, which reminds us how easy it is to reduce the other to a label, and how difficult, but urgent, it is to learn to unlearn…. The exhibition by Ahmet Öğüt gives us back the human face in its complexity, out of the market of visibility, out of the domain of machines. There are no easy answers in these ten canvases. There is only room for doubt, for reflection, for wonder.… It's an exhibition to be crossed in silence, with new eyes. And to get out of, perhaps, a little less certain, but much more human…. It's an experience to live firsthand. And this, today, is rare. Maybe even necessary. Kate Crawford - "Atlas of AI" The book that inspired the title of the exhibition is an enlightening journey into the backstage of Artificial Intelligence. Not a miracle of technology, but an industrial product that exploits human and natural resources. The section on the classification of faces is particularly important to understand the criticism carried out by Öğüt” Photos by Clelia Cadamuro
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Details and making process of Painting No 1, Private Collection
Painting No 1, Private Collection
Painting No 2, Private Collection
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Details and making process of Painting No 2, Private Collection
