Bengt Tibert, Windows, Dressed to Kill, 2026 (extract)
Fakewhale ALPHA opens its release program with DRESSED TO KILL by Bengt Tibert, a series of sixteen unique 1/1 video works that brings the platform’s curatorial and market structure into its first active form.
The release gives Alpha a precise point of entry: an artist whose practice has become central to Fakewhale’s research around AI video, synthetic image culture, behavioral tension, and the instability of contemporary visual language. DRESSED TO KILL extends that position through scenes where recurring figures move through public and commercial spaces with a level of commitment the environments can only partially absorb.
Each work unfolds as a single continuous situation. A corridor, a shop, a waiting area, a room, a threshold. These spaces carry protocols of movement, posture, pace, and social legibility. Tibert’s figures enter them with another frequency entirely. Their bodies appear prepared for an event that the setting itself was never built to host.
Where BODIES OF WORK placed exaggerated figures inside surreal landscapes with monologues as a central structural force, DRESSED TO KILL transfers that pressure into image, sound, posture, and behavioral intensity. Dialogue gives way to atmospheric charge. The body, the room, the light, and Tibert’s original sound compositions form a single expressive system, turning each video into an emitted condition.
Bengt Tibert, Boxes, Dressed to Kill, 2026 (extract)
Developed through Midjourney, Magnific, Google, Kling, and Seedance, with voice synthesis from ElevenLabs and original sound composition by Tibert, the series uses AI as an environment of construction. Each system contributes its own visual and behavioral logic, producing figures that feel hyper-specific and slightly off-register, precise in their presence and unstable in their relation to the world around them.
This friction is central to the work. The figure arrives with total intention, while the generative system renders that intention through its own model of how a body should move through space. What emerges is a third presence: over-directed, misaligned, committed, and displaced.
DRESSED TO KILL gives Fakewhale ALPHA its first pressure point. The program opens through a work that treats the ordinary interior as a site of discipline, exposure, and strange theatrical charge, where Tibert’s figures carry too much intensity for the rooms that contain them. Alpha begins here, inside the friction between cultural position, market presence, and a body of work already calibrated beyond the scale of its occasion..
Bengt Tibert, Pockets, Dressed to Kill, 2026 (extract)
Bengt Tibert, Menu, Dressed to Kill, 2026 (extract)
Bengt Tibert is a Creative Director and artist working with AI, focused primarily on video. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His work has been shown at the Roger Ballen Centre for Photographic Arts in Johannesburg, Space55 in Seoul, Brooke Benington in London, and LUME Studios in New York. He is a Daily.xyz artist curated by Fellowship.xyz and co-creator of AI OR DIE, the first fully AI-generated sketch comedy show. His work was featured in The New Yorker’s “A.I. Is Coming for Culture” (2025).
RELEASE DETAILS
16 unique 1/1 video works
English auction, no reserve
Live June 10, 2026
6:00 PM CEST / 5:00 PM BST
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