In October 2025, Cape Town’s Sisonke Gallery will unveiled "The Stories We Tell," a solo exhibition by artist Simon Venter, that reimagines Christian iconography through the prism of contemporary South Africa.
Far from presenting biblical figures as distant mythological presences, Venter reinterprets them as metaphors for endurance, disillusionment, and curiosity in today’s fractured world.
At the heart of this exhibition is the intersection of sacred tradition and modern tools. Generative AI was integral to Venter’s creative process, not as a substitute for painting, but as a means to experiment with composition, atmosphere, and unexpected visual possibilities.
These digital sketches became foundations for Venter’s signature oil paintings, where human intuition reclaimed and transformed algorithmic logic into layered works that speak to both history and the digital present.
