$18,480
This image marks the inception of the artist’s conceptual framework on desire, Pothosophy. Before there was a name, there was only ache: unformed, unmapped. In this moment, Genesis Kai sits poised at the edge of language, surrounded by cranes who sense what the world has yet to name: that something sacred is about to be written. The scholar is not illustrating thought. She is the thought. Her body, half-submerged in red, becomes the medium. Her brush is both vector and vow. The cranes gather not for beauty, but for duration, and they come to bear witness to a sentence that will stretch across works, lovers, lifetimes. Paint bleeds downward, as if the concept of desire as ontological tension, the core of Pothosophy, could no longer be contained. The red is not just a background. It is theory and it is time becoming form. In Before The Ache Had A Name, Genesis Kai creates not an image of a scholar, but the myth of how her cosmology began. Longevity is not in the body, it’s in the commitment to hold paradox long enough to give it form. Stillness, here, is a form of birth. Philosophy, a consequence of ache.
작품 정보+
- 재료
- Digital art, drawing, AI, Hanji paper
- 크기
- 130 cm x 100 cm x 1 cm
- 제작년도
- 2026
- 작가 서명
- Authenticated signature chop
- 에디션
- 1/1 + 1 AP
- 보증서
- 갤러리가 발행하는 진품 보증서 포함
배송 및 관세+
- 갤러리 위치에서 발송됩니다 (작품별로 설정되며, 기본값은 갤러리 주소입니다)
- 배송비는 도착지에 따라 결제 시 계산됩니다
- 운송 중 전체 보험을 선택할 수 있습니다
- 보통 영업일 기준 10일 이내에 미술품 전용 포장으로 발송됩니다
- 일부 작품은 직접 픽업이 가능합니다 (배송비 없음)
- 표시 가격에는 판매자 국가 또는 작품 발송지에 적용되는 부가가치세가 포함될 수 있습니다
- 구매자 국가에서 발생하는 관세, 수입 부가가치세/GST, 통관 수수료 및 기타 세금은 가격에 포함되어 있지 않으며 구매자가 부담합니다
- 이는 도착지 세관 당국이 산정하며 운송업체가 별도로 청구합니다
- 관할 지역에 따라 결제 시 판매세가 추가될 수 있습니다
Genesis Kai is the AI-infused alter ego of Korean-Hong Kong new media artist Ming Shiu. Through her conceptual framework “Pothosophy,” she redefines desire not as lack but as a structuring tension that shapes reality. Working across AI-driven collaboration, video installation, and hanji prints, she reinterprets East Asian heritage and diasporic memory through a contemporary philosophical lens. Since her debut at Asia Now (2022) in France, her works have been exhibited internationally across Paris, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
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Located in the heart of Le Marais in Paris, ArtVerse is a contemporary digital art gallery founded by Sébastien Borget and Arthur Madrid (The Sandbox), a first-generation digital and crypto art curator. Under the concept of “URL to IRL,” ArtVerse brings digital creations into the physical world, exploring the evolving relationship between virtual works and real-life presence. As the boundaries between the material and immaterial continue to blur, ArtVerse champions a new wave of artists who blend traditional techniques with digital innovation. The gallery elevates both emerging and established digital artists, positioning them within the broader discourse of contemporary art. With a thoughtful and forward-looking curatorial approach, ArtVerse serves as a vital platform to understand how image, memory, and artistic expression are being reshaped in the post-digital age.
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This image marks the inception of the artist’s conceptual framework on desire, Pothosophy. Before there was a name, there was only ache: unformed, unmapped. In this moment, Genesis Kai sits poised at the edge of language, surrounded by cranes who sense what the world has yet to name: that something sacred is about to be written. The scholar is not illustrating thought. She is the thought. Her body, half-submerged in red, becomes the medium. Her brush is both vector and vow. The cranes gather not for beauty, but for duration, and they come to bear witness to a sentence that will stretch across works, lovers, lifetimes. Paint bleeds downward, as if the concept of desire as ontological tension, the core of Pothosophy, could no longer be contained. The red is not just a background. It is theory and it is time becoming form. In Before The Ache Had A Name, Genesis Kai creates not an image of a scholar, but the myth of how her cosmology began. Longevity is not in the body, it’s in the commitment to hold paradox long enough to give it form. Stillness, here, is a form of birth. Philosophy, a consequence of ache.
작품 정보+
- 재료
- Digital art, drawing, AI, Hanji paper
- 크기
- 130 cm x 100 cm x 1 cm
- 제작년도
- 2026
- 작가 서명
- Authenticated signature chop
- 에디션
- 1/1 + 1 AP
- 보증서
- 갤러리가 발행하는 진품 보증서 포함
배송 및 관세+
- 갤러리 위치에서 발송됩니다 (작품별로 설정되며, 기본값은 갤러리 주소입니다)
- 배송비는 도착지에 따라 결제 시 계산됩니다
- 운송 중 전체 보험을 선택할 수 있습니다
- 보통 영업일 기준 10일 이내에 미술품 전용 포장으로 발송됩니다
- 일부 작품은 직접 픽업이 가능합니다 (배송비 없음)
- 표시 가격에는 판매자 국가 또는 작품 발송지에 적용되는 부가가치세가 포함될 수 있습니다
- 구매자 국가에서 발생하는 관세, 수입 부가가치세/GST, 통관 수수료 및 기타 세금은 가격에 포함되어 있지 않으며 구매자가 부담합니다
- 이는 도착지 세관 당국이 산정하며 운송업체가 별도로 청구합니다
- 관할 지역에 따라 결제 시 판매세가 추가될 수 있습니다
$18,480