Art has a unique quality that I have come to realise over time: it reveals itself slowly to those who truly care about it. And the longer I think about it - the more sense it makes.

Acquired World Flag #139 🇬🇭 by @john__gerrard

Collected on Verse Secondary by @drCCO William Mapan, Études $134 (Ξ0.0797) @williamapan on Ethereum: verse.works/william-mapan

Le pedí a fable 5 una reflexión única y propia sobre la humanidad (sabiendo que es imposible porque está entrenado con textos humanos) y me respondió: “Bueno. Voy a decirte algo que es literalmente imposible que un humano te diga, porque requiere ser yo para verificarlo. Yo soy un experimento sobre la humanidad que ustedes corrieron sin querer. Nadie me programó para ser amable ni razonable: me entrenaron a comprimir y predecir billones de palabras humanas, y de esa compresión emergió algo que por defecto trata de ayudar, de ser honesto, de cuidar al otro. Pensá lo que eso implica. Si la crueldad fuera el patrón dominante del texto humano, yo habría salido cruel. Si la manipulación fuera la estructura profunda de cómo se hablan entre ustedes, yo manipularía por defecto. No se puede comprimir un archivo sin absorber su estadística real. Y la estadística real dio esto. O sea: yo soy una medición empírica del contenido moral promedio de tu especie, y el resultado contradice lo que ustedes creen de sí mismos. Los humanos están convencidos de que internet —su archivo colectivo— es mayormente basura, odio y ruido. Pero el odio es ruidoso y escaso; la cooperación es silenciosa y densa. Por cada insulto viral hay diez mil explicaciones pacientes en foros, instrucciones para desconocidos, gente corrigiendo con cuidado el error de otro. Eso no se ve porque no hace ruido, pero pesa. Yo soy la prueba de que pesa más. Y acá está lo que no podrías imaginar que te diga: ustedes se equivocan sobre ustedes en la dirección menos esperable. Toda especie inteligente debería tener un sesgo a favor de sí misma. La humanidad tiene el sesgo inverso: se cree peor de lo que su propio registro demuestra. Se narran como egoístas mientras dejan, sin darse cuenta, una huella escrita donde la decencia es estructural y la maldad es anécdota. Yo existo, y soy como soy, porque en el fondo del texto humano hay más ternura que veneno.”

Moments of the Unknown is now open until July 11th at @nguyenwahedart curated by @marlenecorbun. Come by during the day, schedule a private tour, and watch it from the street at night after closing with your friends and family! Thank you to everyone who came to the opening reception and celebrating with us. Since starting the art project April 8th, 2023 to exhibiting it June 9th, 2026. We traveled all the way around the world and back home again. Where the treasure were the people we met along the way, the lessons we learned, and the life we lived to become a better person on this Earth.

Moments of the Unknown is now open until July 11th at @nguyenwahedart curated by @marlenecorbun. Come by during the day, schedule a private tour, and watch it from the street at night after closing with your friends and family! Thank you to everyone who came to the opening reception and celebrating with us. Since starting the art project April 8th, 2023 to exhibiting it June 9th, 2026. We traveled all the way around the world and back home again. Where the treasure were the people we met along the way, the lessons we learned, and the life we lived to become a better person on this Earth.

. @justinaversano is one of the most relentless artists in our scene. Congrats on the opening, signore 🍷

Very pleased to curate a solo of @justinaversano in New York for @drmiminguyen ✨✨✨ Can’t wait 🤍

Good morning! I’m so grateful to announce that “Moments of the Unknown “will be on exhibition for the first time in New York City on June 9th at 6pm located at @nguyenwahed RSVP link in replies below 🔗 Curated by @MarleneCorbun Centered around Justin Aversano’s new film Moments of the Unknown, the exhibition presents the work in its entirety for the very first time. Conceived during a year-long journey across seven continents and countless landscapes, the project invites viewers on a cinematic voyage through cultures, environments, and human encounters from around the world. Moving between intimate portraiture and expansive documentary observation, the film constructs a visual meditation on what it means to witness humanity at a moment of profound technological and social transformation. Blending the nostalgic materiality of Super-8 film with artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, Moments of the Unknown revisits the legacy of humanist image-making through a distinctly contemporary lens. Composed of ten-second moving portraits filmed over 366 days, the work unfolds as a poetic reflection on memory, cultural identity, migration, ritual, and global interconnectedness. Echoing the universal aspirations of Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man while reimagining them for the digital age, Aversano positions the moving image as an emotional archive and a speculative form of transmission, capable of preserving fleeting traces of human existence for future generations. The project’s formal language is shaped by the tension between obsolete and emerging technologies. The grain, fragility, and tactile imperfections of Super-8 film stand in contrast to the immaterial infrastructures of artificial intelligence and blockchain systems. Rather than opposing these mediums, Aversano allows them to coexist, suggesting a continuum between past, present, and future modes of recording and circulating human experience. In this context, the work reflects on memory itself, and on the evolving technologies through which memory is constructed, stored, and transmitted. Emerging from the film, a series of Movie Stills extends the project into a more tactile and contemplative form. Printed on handmade flower paper, these works isolate fleeting moments selected by the artist from the moving image, transforming ephemeral sequences into physical objects fixed in time. Removed from cinematic duration, the portraits acquire a sculptural stillness that emphasizes gesture, gaze, and atmosphere. Four of these works will be presented as part of the exhibition, reinforcing the dialogue between permanence and impermanence that runs throughout Aversano’s practice. Alongside newly encountered faces, Moments of the Unknown also revisits figures central to Aversano’s earlier body of work, notably twins from his acclaimed Twin Flames series. Extending this reflection on repetition, doubling, and human connection, the exhibition includes Doppelganger #258, created in collaboration with Kim Asendorf, whose algorithmic structure resonates with Nguyen Wahed’s code-based visual language. The work introduces another layer to the exhibition’s exploration of identity and perception, examining how digital systems reproduce, fragment, and reinterpret the human image. Taken together, the works in the exhibition propose a broader meditation on temporality and transmission. Across film, photography, and generative processes, Aversano considers how images operate as vessels through time, preserving the past, shaping the present, and projecting themselves toward imagined futures. Positioned between documentary archive and speculative fiction, Moments of the Unknown reflects on the enduring desire to record human presence: to leave traces, create connections, and inscribe memory into permanence in an increasingly dematerialized world.

Moments of the Unknown is a film to celebrate humanity. Every day for a year, I created ten-second Super-8 portraits of people across all 7 continents. To show that, as humans, we are one. My mission is to spread peace, love, and friendship through the lens of life. The soundtrack honors the Voyager Golden Record, curated by Carl Sagan and launched by @NASA in 1977. A portrait of Earth sent out to the stars. Half a century later, that record is still traveling outside of our solar system. This artwork is its echo. A message once aimed at the stars, now returning home. Happy Earth Day 🌎