Collection: CLINT ENNS - Art Lottery

Clint Enns – The Imperfections of the Imaginary

Clint Enns explores the fractures and imperfections of AI-generated imagery. His works emerge from a blend of laconic humor, cinematic rigor, and surreal visual logic. By feeding the AI with paradoxical, often absurd prompts, he provokes moments that hover between dream and malfunction: bodies that grow out of themselves, clowns and cowboys that lose their masks, faces that multiply, scenes that seem like found photographs yet never existed.

What interests Enns are the cracks in the surface. Rather than smoothing over the algorithmic errors, they are elevated to a poetic cipher—a reflection of our longing for perfection and our fear of the uncanny. His characters move in spaces that seem familiar yet are disturbingly alien, as if someone had inscribed a disturbance into family photos, dream sequences, or documentaries.

The visual language is both nostalgic and contemporary: it cites the aesthetics of analogue cinema, amateur photography and staged photographic art of the 1970s and 1980s, while unmistakably anchoring itself in the space of possibilities offered by new technologies.

Enns calls his work an "art lottery": a game of chance that blurs the distinction between human intention and mechanical hallucination. The resulting works are comic, tragic, disturbing, and touching at once—images that defy logic yet reveal something very human.

Clint Enns lives in Winnipeg, Canada. He is an artist, filmmaker, curator, and author. His experimental films and video art have been shown internationally. For years, he has been exploring the history of the visual arts and our culture of imagination using unconventional means—from found footage to glitch aesthetics to AI generation.