real.ainimals is a street art project that is born in AI and gains presence in real life. Created from images generated by artificial intelligence, the project materializes animals in real scale and inserts them into urban spaces through the technique of lambe-lambe (street wheat-paste posters).

Each image is printed and manually pasted in the very locations where these animals might exist, invisible. This gesture, in itself, shifts the lambe-lambe from its historical role as rapid communication into the realm of site-specific art: a silent yet intentional insertion into the fabric of the city.

The journey of each piece reinforces this tension between worlds. The animal begins as a digital image, but gains weight, glue, wind and sun. Over time, it tears, decomposes and gets dirty. In this process, it is photographed not as an icon, but as a trace.

Only then is it transformed into an NFT, completing a cycle that begins as data, passes through matter and returns to information, now marked by time. Unlike the logic of speculative digital art, the NFT here is not a starting point, but a final testimony: a kind of immediate archaeology of that animal’s interaction with the city. In this contradiction lies the core of the project: an artwork created to decompose ends up archived in a medium that also feels worn out and decayed after its burst.

The project is layered with deliberate tension: animals that do not speak, yet communicate through what they wear; the city that both destroys and consecrates at once. The artwork is there, visible, but dependent on whoever passes by. It may be ignored, documented, torn down, shared, it may endure, and still come undone.

At the center of the project lies a layer of innocence: the animal is not afraid to show itself, nor does it hide what it is. Even dressed in human symbols, it maintains a kind of freedom that we seem to have lost, the ability to express something directly, without fear of consequence. The white T-shirt, stamped with a word or a phrase, becomes a space for that projection: an unguarded, almost instinctive voice that escapes the filter and installs itself in the world.

Between contradiction and critique, between humor 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.