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Medina Kasimova’s new solo exhibition, From Canvas to Code, premiered on July 24th 2025 in the FATVillage Metaverse, marking the official launch of her first virtual exhibition. The opening of the project took place during the webinar “Art in the Metaverse: New Frontiers of Exhibition and Preservation,” which hosted a number of international experts, highlighting new approaches to exhibiting and safeguarding art in immersive digital environments.

At the intersection of traditional art practice and immersive digital experience, Medina Kasimova’s artistic vision bridges the tactile and the algorithmic. The exhibition pairs her original paintings with their generative dynamic, responsive reinterpretations — “digital twins” of the artworks.

Developed in close collaboration with Medina’s studio, each generative piece is trained on her original works and guided by artist-written prompts. The result: digital artworks that feel emotionally authentic, carrying the essence of artistic vision into the new, interactive realm.

By embracing technology as a poetic extension of the hand, From Canvas to Code invites viewers to engage with art as a living process—one that spans canvas and code, featuring generative video and original static paintings, brought to new digital life in the metaverse.

Direct link: https://medina.imx3.art/

Curators about the exhibition:

At the meeting point of analogue tradition and digital transformation, Medina Kasimova’s work bridges the physical and the algorithmic. This exhibition presents a selection of the Azerbaijani artist’s original works alongside their generative counterparts—immersive reinterpretations that expand across screens as fluid, dynamic digital extensions of the canvas. Together, these pieces form a unified body of work that speaks to nature’s healing presence, the emotional intensity of artistic resilience, and the shifting relationship between humanity and technology.

Medina’s approach is deeply personal and rooted in a connection to the natural world. Her creative voice—shaped in part by a near-fatal birth experience—is charged with quiet urgency and a drive for expression that defies conventional language. For her, nature is not a backdrop but an active participant: its forms, rhythms, and regenerative power are echoed in the layered structures she constructs both in paint and in pixels. Organic textures and colour palettes drawn from remembered and imagined landscapes lend her work a timeless, restorative energy.

Together with her studio, Medina treats technology not as a novelty, but as a meaningful extension of hand and mind—an instrument that amplifies the emotional cadence of her visual language. Through an intricate process of digitisation and AI-based training, her paintings are reimagined as generative artworks that preserve the aura of the originals while unfolding in evolving, responsive ways. These “digital twins” are not replicas, but continuations: living entities that grow through iteration and interaction, forming new emotional terrains for the viewer to traverse.

Narrative remains central to Medina’s digital methodology. Her studio curates and pre-trains AI models on her body of work, ensuring that each generative output resonates with the integrity of her artistic vision. Textual prompts authored by the artist serve as conceptual scaffolds—guiding the machine not only to emulate, but to inhabit and extend the emotive landscapes of her paintings.

By navigating the space between the analogue and the algorithmic, Medina redefines what it means to create, to feel, and to belong in the present moment. Her art does not merely reflect the world—it reimagines it with care, clarity, and wonder.