Scenes:
The Sensory and the Remembered in the Digital Age

ArtVerse Gallery presents ‘Scenes: The Sensory and the Remembered in the Digital Age’ for the Digital Sector of Paris Photo 2025, an exhibition that explores how the photographic image is being redefined within today’s digital environment. As photography enters a post-camera era shaped by algorithms, synthetic media, and immersive technologies, image-makers today are not merely documenting the world—they are building new ones. Featuring six artists, the exhibition investigates how contemporary practices expand photography’s core concerns—memory, emotion, perception, and identity—by weaving together narrative, simulation, and visual experimentation. These works reflect a shift from the indexical to the constructed, from the decisive moment to generative worlds.
 

Niceaunties builds Auntieverse, a speculative archive and AI-driven visual world inspired by the Asian “auntie” archetype. Her images blend humor, nostalgia, and digital surrealism to reframe everyday matriarchs as empowered protagonists within future imaginaries.

Grant Yun constructs minimalist digital landscapes that offer meditative spaces composed through restrained geometry and color. His images reinterpret photographic stillness through the logic of painting and digital memory. Reuben Wu uses drone lighting to choreograph landscapes as stage-like scenes, expanding the photographic act into a sculptural manipulation of light and time. Together with Niceaunties, these artists rethink the fundamental components of photography—composition, duration, and affect—within digital vocabularies.
 

Shavonne Wong, Emi Kusano, and Genesis Kai explore identity and portraiture in digital space. Wong constructs hyperreal portraits of virtual beings, proposing new modes of emotional presence. Kusano collaborates with AI to generate self-portraits, revealing how identity and memory are now co-authored with algorithms and machine perception. Genesis Kai, a non-human digital entity, interrogates subjecthood and reality itself by merging traditional visual culture with speculative artificial consciousness.

This exhibition does not mark the end of photography, but considers how it persists under transformed conditions. Images now exist across screens, circulate through networks, and are shaped by algorithmic flows. These six artists do not reject photography—they rewrite it in a new order. And within that order, we still feel the lingering resonance of the photographic.