Pale Kirill: From The Old Man to Safe Haven
Kirill Semenovich, known as Pale Kirill, builds AI video works as complete worlds and treats making as a kind of prayer. A short profile of his practice, from ULTRALOVE to Safe Haven on Verse.
Pale Kirill is the name Kirill Semenovich, a visual designer and artist, uses for work that treats image making as a kind of prayer. His projects arrive as complete worlds, each with its own identity, website and set of works: KINGDOM, a collection of 10 gif artworks in 2023; ULTRALOVE, a short film and video series built from VHS tapes of his own childhood, extended and rebuilt with AI, with angels added to the footage; and The Book of Hope, a solo show of 50 artworks with a designed book, in 2024.
In 2025 he made The Old Man, an online solo show of 8 video artworks presented by Fellowship, with poems he wrote himself. He has framed it as a manifesto around two questions: why he creates, and how he can learn to love. Safe Haven followed as its spiritual continuation, a video essay series of 23 works released on Verse through Artist Rooms on Ethereum. The series is built from fragments of memory and feeling, and he calls it an attempt to form a relationship with eternity, reconstructed layer by layer so that each surface opens onto another space.
He refuses to settle on one look. Rather than hunt for a signature style, he mixes 3D, VHS, oil painting and whatever else he loves, training it into models until something unexpected falls out. His site now lists Genius Loci, an interactive experience of point and click worlds, for 2026, with a music video, Two Moons, and visual assets for a feature film, Six Till Midnight, marked as upcoming.
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