Real Ainimals is a multidisciplinary art project, from a Brazilian artist, that starts in AI and ends up in the streets.
Each piece features an animal, generated by AI, anthropomorphized and always wearing a white T-shirt. Animals that do not speak, yet communicate through their expressions, poses, intentions and location in the city.
The project also points to something often overlooked: the absence of animals in cities. Their presence has been reduced to locked spaces: as pets or in zoos. Real Ainimals symbolically brings them back. It gives them scale, presence and the freedom to occupy public space once again.
These figures are made in AI, printed at life scale and pasted by hand using the lambe-lambe technique, a traditional method of wheat-paste posters used in Brazilian street art.
Each lambe-lambe is placed in a specific location that resonates with the message of the piece. Depending on the context, it might appear in front of a fast food chain, a landmark, a bar or another urban setting. The location and its surroundings are part of the artwork. Where it is matters as much as what it says.
The journey of each work reinforces the tension between the digital and the physical. It starts as a data-generated image, then gains weight, glue, wind and sun by being exposed in the real world. Once pasted, the animal begins to change. It fades, cracks, gets dirty, is ignored or torn down. Only then is the work photographed, often after it has already been altered by time and the city.
From there, the image of the worn-out animal is turned into an NFT, another worn-out space, not as a collectible alone but as a record. A snapshot of something that lived in the same spaces as us, marked by the real world. It reflects both the fragility of memory and the exhaustion of the digital. Each NFT also comes with a printed and framed physical version, repeating the cycle once again: from screen to street, from digital to real, from AI matter to memory.
Between humor, critique and erosion, Real Ainimals operates like a soft collision, between what is made and what is left behind, what is fake and what still speaks, what was never real and what becomes memory.
