Cem Hasimi would rather keep moving than arrive. He’s built an entire practice on it. The London-based digital artist works in the space between the physical and the virtual, where emotion meets code and movement becomes meaning, following a single recurring figure: a quiet presence wandering through luminous, shifting worlds, searching, observing, forever becoming. Originally from Turkey, he spent years as an award-winning art director before walking away to chase something more personal: the tension between control and surrender, self and simulation. His process throws everything into the mix, AI, code, physical sculpture, light installation, digital painting and frame-by-frame animation, blending the synthetic and the tangible until you can’t quite tell which is which. He’s exhibited at W1 Curates, Frameless London and the British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery, as well as in New York, Lisbon, Stockholm and Miami.
At Kinomural he’s showing Never Arrive, and the title is the whole philosophy. His recurring figure walks through spaces that look familiar but never stop shifting, as if reality keeps refreshing before it can finish loading: the light too calm, the grass glowing a little too evenly, everything like a memory a machine is still trying to remember. The landscapes start as digital paintings, then get reshaped into motion and threaded with hand-animated characters, a running conversation between what he imagines and what the machine gets slightly wrong. “I keep walking because motion feels honest,” he says. “I never really arrive, and perhaps that is the point.”
