Loosely tied to ideas of accelerationism and Kali Yuga—the Buddhist age of decline—the works display a visceral progression toward destruction, where the past grows heavier, and the future shrinks and homogenizes. Climate catastrophe, mass extinction, and the advent of AI cast long shadows of humanity's built-in obsolescence: What happens when the world ends? Will consciousness end with it, or will it persist as something different?

At the periphery of this inquiry lies a question of simulacra—can artificially generated images elicit the same emotional resonance as human-made art, or are they merely hollow, neutered echoes incapable of truly reaching an audience? Does an aura of our user-uploaded archive of cursed images remain, or has art itself been consumed by the weight of AI mutation and replication?

Demon Lovers Inc. was founded by artists Dayana Matasheva and Edson Niebla as a corporation that operates across any medium necessary to serve its conceptual goals—new media, sculpture, painting, video, film, and photography. Named after Olivier Assayas' neo-noir classic Demonlover, the company takes inspiration from the film's shadowy corporation producing hentai. 

Like its namesake, Demon Lovers Inc. produces taste-offensive, emotionally charged videos that explore the mutation of storytelling under AI influence and the increasing dominance of algorithmic logic in cultural production. Embracing the "authorlessness" of low culture, the corporation does not resist the hybridization of art, acceleration, and algorithmic influence—it fully leans into it, accepting the good, the bad, and the grotesque of the digital age.

Text by: Demon Lovers Inc.  

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