Bengt Tibert, BODIES OF WORK

There is a moment, when looking at certain images, in which the body feels too vast for the gaze that tries to contain it. It is not just matter, not just figure: it is an excess, a gesture that overflows the visible and dissolves into the frame that holds it. In BODIES OF WORK, Bengt Tibert transforms this excess into theater, into fracture, into a field of tension.

Presented as the next Solo Release curated by Fakewhale on Verse, BODIES OF WORK introduces a cycle of twelve works where spectacle, image, and language are set against each other, building an unstable ground in which the monumentality of the body, the fragility of the voice, and the otherness of landscape collide and overlap in a constant semantic drift.

Tibert, an artist and creative director focused on artificial intelligence applied to video, with a Master of Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, is currently part of Daily.xyz (curated by Fellowship.xyz) and co-creator of AI OR DIE, the first sketch comedy entirely generated by AI. His practice inhabits a liminal space where generative technologies are not mere tools serving linear authorship, but autonomous environments that redefine the relationships between perception, irony, and spectacle.

BODIES OF WORK unfolds as a complex cycle of videos where hypertrophic, sculptural, almost archetypal bodies are placed in scenarios populated by animals, atmospheres, and shifting geographies that oscillate between the sublime and the surreal, destabilizing any claim to centrality. Even as the body projects an aura of power, it is systematically fractured by voices that splinter into dissonant monologues, where words no longer carry stable meaning but implode into fragile sound. In this friction between force and collapse, monumentality and transience, a perceptual short-circuit emerges in which irony becomes a structural element: a generative principle that turns spectacle into a contradictory field, where meaning amplifies only to dissolve, sliding into a neutral zone of perpetual instability.

Artificial intelligence plays a decisive role here. The project stems from a hybrid methodology combining Midjourney, Magnific, Krea, Gemini, Google VEO3, and OpenAI Sora, with synthetic voices processed through ElevenLabs and an original soundtrack composed by Tibert himself. In this framework, AI functions as a generative environment in its own right: a field where images and words are not organized by semantic hierarchy but collide in productive contradictions, liberating language from the obligation of linear meaning and letting it circulate in disjointed, excessive, continuously deferred forms.

It is precisely within this slippage that BODIES OF WORK finds its power: the monumental body rising as simulacrum, the landscape shifting into unstable scenography, the voice bending and breaking. All these elements converge into an aesthetic system that refuses closure and instead generates a proliferation of paradoxical meanings, never fully resolved. The work seeks to amplify the precariousness of perception, foregrounding a condition in which spectacle, irony, and tension become the primary devices of experience.

To delve deeper into these dynamics, we have envisioned a dialogue with the artist.