Video trailer of SUBVERSE online exhibition of the dslcollection

SUBVERSE is the result of Larys Frogier meticulous scientific work carried out in the intimacy of the prestigious private dslcollection, sharing with their collectors the passion and objectives of making Chinese contemporary art accessible to each of us wherever we are and whenever we want. Combining an invincible support to the contemporary arts and pioneering a sustainable engagement in digital technologies, dslcollectionencourages the development of inclusive international art histories, thereby contributing to the visibility of major contemporary Chinese artworks that compose today a cultural legacy that is essential to preserve on a global scale.

Produced in collaboration with the highly professional ANASAEA team, SUBVERSE combines the rigorous conceptualization of an exhibition project with the novel experience of digitalized artworks within virtual immersive yet deeply sensitive and critical spaces. Far from excluding the importance of an intimate physical perception of the artworks, SUBVERSE contributes to envision our new experiences of art by overcoming unproductive binary systems of thought that are opposing vernacular-digital, ancient-contemporary, West-East... Fundamentally, here the digital is not only used as a technological “tool” but it is first and foremost acknowledged as a substantial basis for experiencing transformative textures, opened extensions, critical concepts and profound affects.

SUBVERSE gathers artists who are daring to exploring the textures of raw materials (pigment, fire, ash, water, ice, flesh, sound…) as well as the skin-screen textures of photographic, videographic and digital images. Such experimentations allow the creation of images delving into substantial experiences of the living where deep imaginary worlds are simultaneously revealing the hidden violence of social narratives and ideological systems. Here, we do not ask what is reality, but we are invited to touch the unspeakable of an image, the invisible of a trauma, the fantasy of a private and social body.

SUBVERSE offers art experiences beneath the seen, beyond the metaverse, within the core, where silence speaks and echoes roaring images. Not outer, but inner, raw, deep and strange, where consciousness begins to change towards unlimited extensions and transformations of what we call a body, a space, a society, a memory. SUBVERSE is not a place but the inward turn to the unconscious, the intuition, and the ineffable. It is where myths, metaphors, symbols , ideologies are questioned, combined, revisited and turned into unexpected and stunning paradoxes.

Using gamification avatars and AI generated voice for guided tours in Chinese, English, French Italian and Spanish languages, SUBVERSE is now reaching new audiences as well as inviting professional art communities to expand our practices of curating, collecting and sharing knowledge.