“Born before the fall of the Berlin Wall, I belong to the last generation to have known an analogue world — a reference point from which I question our hyper-technological present, fascinated by conscious AI, augmented vision, cognitive over-performance and longevity. I use digital tools not to speed up the race but to place it in brackets: to summon symbols, archetypes and fragments of reality that interrogate our collective unconscious and the place of the human. With Catherine, our visions aligned; her curiosity for technology and image, and Subtile’s spirit, make it the natural setting for this hybrid exhibition.” — Benoît Theunissen, artist
Benoît invites you to an immersive journey into a shifting, sensitive landscape. A constellation of works where photography dissolves into digital distortion, where interior visions are projected into the space-time of screens, where memory glitches and reality drifts into abstraction. Combining physical artworks (printed on aluminium Dibond) with digital pieces (iPads, screens, projections, audiovisual and sound installations), the exhibition at Subtile Gallery invites viewers to lose — or find — themselves in a reimagined world. It is the realm of a polymorphous artist exploring the imaginaries of the 21st century through the lenses of dream, intuition, experimentation, and emerging technologies. At the crossroads of realities: an invitation into the Artverse.
Alongside the physical exhibition, a fully immersive virtual gallery hosted in the metaverse offers a new kind of experience. Here, the works are freed from frames, walls, and formats. They become flow, encounter, mental journey. Art is something you walk through, breathe in, and live. A diversity of techniques, a singular pursuit of perception
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