Image creditSolver 2026 Acrylic on canvas stretched over aluminum panel. © Avery Singer Photo: Lance Brewer

High-tech paintings meet a red-velvet casino, where AI distortions and memories of televised war blur the lines of reality.

Key Movements

Contemporary Art, Digital Art

Meet the artist

Avery Singer

Exhibition Highlights - What you'll see

Avery Singer has long used digital tools to rethink the limits of the canvas, but here she pushes into the unsettling uncanny valley of artificial intelligence. By layering memories of early 2000s conflict with algorithmic glitches, Singer captures the emotional distance of experiencing war through a screen. Her work explores how technology does not just record our history, but actively distorts the way we remember it.

You're watching a sterile gallery space transformed into a high-stakes gambling den, complete with heavy red curtains, tiled carpets, and the cold eye of surveillance cameras. On the walls, large-scale airbrushed canvases appear to vibrate with what the artist calls AI slop—a chaotic mosaic of soldiers and poker players where skin and clothing dissolve into digital noise. The scale is immersive, forcing a physical confrontation with the flickering, broken images that define our modern perception.

Worth the trip

  • Technological frontier: See how Singer uses AI-based tools and custom software to create Solver, a painting that captures the specific, poetic beauty of a malfunctioning digital system.
  • Immersive environment: The upper floor of the gallery is fully redesigned as a casino, turning the act of viewing art into an exercise in surveillance and risk.
  • Zurich Art Weekend: This exhibition marks a major homecoming for the New York artist during the city's most vibrant contemporary art festival of 2026.

How to experience it

Walk through the installation slowly, paying attention to the way the staged CCTV cameras mirror the surveillance themes in the paintings. The works are best viewed both from a distance to see the poker player silhouettes and up close to inspect the airbrushed textures and digital masking. Afterward, walk toward the Limmat river; the industrial-yet-polished atmosphere of the Zurich West district provides the perfect backdrop to reflect on the cold, calculated aesthetic of Singer's digital world.

Exhibition

Avery Singer. War_overlays

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Artlovers Tip

Look closely at the work Solver to find the specific glitch where a U.S. marine is rendered wearing a keffiyeh—it is a prime example of the AI slop Singer uses to highlight the limits of algorithmic logic.

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