New York-based artist Avery Singer presents her exhibition “War_overlays” at Hauser & Wirth Zurich Limmatstrasse. The show features new paintings alongside a site-specific architectural installation that transforms the gallery’s upper floor into a casino-like environment with surveillance elements, including red curtains, tiled carpets, and staged CCTV cameras.
For the first time, Singer incorporates AI tools into her painting process. The works explore how media and technology shape consciousness and blur the boundaries between perception and reality. Building on her earlier reflections on 9/11 and televised conflict, the paintings use distorted, AI-generated imagery to address the Western experience of war as a media spectacle, drawing influence from Jean Baudrillard.
Central to the series is the recurring “Poker Player” motif — a stand-in for the artist — overlaid with chaotic AI-influenced fragments of contemporary warfare. The resulting images employ an intentional “AI slop aesthetic,” featuring uncanny distortions and visual glitches that highlight the limits of algorithmic systems.
Avery Singer: War_overlays / Hauser & Wirth Zurich Limmatstrasse. Zurich (Switzerland), June 26, 2026.
