Marlene Corbun

Curator & Advisor in both Contemporary Art & Web3 Art

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

Thank you @100collectors for having me on your podcast 🙏 ♥️ Link to the episode below 👇

[100 collectors @100collectors]

🎙️ New UNLOCKED Episode w/ curator & advisor @MarleneCorbun

Currently the Head Curator at @LaCollectionOff, Marlene reflects on how digital & physical art are not in opposition, but in dialogue.

🎧 Listen now:
Spotify: https://t.co/8yCWfwHRt9
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[Toni Marinara @Toni_Marinara]

June has already been and will continue to be a busy month for @Eko3316!

This month JeanJacques is debuting two new yet very unique bodies of work.

Lets jump in and explore exactly what below👇 🧵1/12

[Diane Drubay @DianeDrubay]

👏👏👏

[Wen New Atelier @WenNew_Atelier]

A thead about Dispiriation[s]

1/ Georges Perec wrote a 300-page novel, La Disparition, without using the letter e, the most common letter in the French language. In French, “eux” (them) and the letter “e” are homonyms. Who might “them” be? It’s been said that it refers to his...

[Ryan Zurrer @kukulabanze]

Go see @justinaversano’s show. He’s an amazing artist, friend, and story teller of the human condition.

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

My very own “Moments of the Unknown”@nguyenwahed @justinaversano 🤍 if you are in New York you should come and see the movie, its a very unique project born out of Justin’s daily commitment to his practice and his will to create encounters ✨

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

& the show is open ✨✨✨ @justinaversano @nguyenwahed

[justinaversano @justinaversano]

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.

[Warren (W) @TheArtOfWarren]

Art ppl >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[Mimi Nguyen واحد 🥯 @drmiminguyen]

Absolutely nycmaxxxing now❤️❤️

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

My essay about @justinaversano solo show & first ever presentation of the movie “Moments of the Unknown”@nguyenwahed

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

https://t.co/qYSMMbZTp9

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

We are ready @nguyenwahed 🔥

[justinaversano @justinaversano]

See you at @nguyenwahed 🎞️

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

https://t.co/qYSMMbZTp9

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

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

[Mimi Nguyen واحد 🥯 @drmiminguyen]

New York is all about people, it is the best place to premiere @justinaversano’s moments of the unknown - a movie celebrating a portrait of all humans across 7 continents - really looking forward to the show opening tomorrow with this special screening

I’ve invited @MarleneCorbun to curate a show at Nguyen Wahed and it’s quite special for us as she’s bringing Justin in June - who I first met with her at Paris Photo 2023🥹

📍Nguyen Wahed 504 E 12th St
🗓️ Tuesday June 9, 6-8pm

[Vinciane Jones @vinciane_j]

Lisbon, it’s been a blast 💥

📸 Beautiful installation by @Eko3316 curated by @MarleneCorbun for @Danae__io

[DANAE.IO @Danae__io]

Calculated Skies at @NFCsummit exceeded everything we hoped for. The crowd, the wonder, the children’s laughter echoing in the room, moments we won’t forget.🫶

Your selfies, your reactions, your curiosity: thank you for bringing this generative infinity room to life the way you did.

Thank you for showing up, for engaging, for sharing. And thank you to @NFCsummit , @Eko3316 , and @MarleneCorbun for making this happen. 🔥

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

Rocking it with @aljaparis in @Eko3316 generative infinity room ✨

[DANAE.IO @Danae__io]

The infinity room is all yours.
Every angle is the right one 👁️
Calculated Skies from @Eko3316 is live at @NFCsummit. Come through.💙

[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

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[Marlene Corbun @MarleneCorbun]

New York on June 9th with @justinaversano @nguyenwahed ✨

[justinaversano @justinaversano]

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.

[justinaversano @justinaversano]

Scenes from “Inner Voice” at @Danae__io curated by @MarleneCorbun.

A collective exhibition in reference to Kandinsky's "Spiritual in Art". Through photography, video, embroidery, sculpture and hybrid practices, the works invite us to reconsider the way we see and feel.

What makes art spiritual or connect to the spirit world? Where does the flame of creativity originate? Are we the messengers or the discoverers of altered states in consciousness? How do artists breathe life into objects through our ideas? Our life force energy is transferred into the materials. A transformation of a totem from our human essence. Traces of ourselves, through catharsis, through synthesis and metamorphosis, that connect to the world and onto others dreams, desires, and fantasies. Artists gift life. Just as Kandinsky channeled the divine through abstraction, we channel reality like an oracle through a mystic lens with craft, code, and technology woven together.

The beauty of spirituality is that we each have our own experience and truth. Like religions, We share our stories and ideas which give us meaning of this thing called life. My journey begins with the flame of creation. A spark of inspiration that catches fire through the mind and body until it becomes an obsession turned to discipline. Forged into meaning we light the path forward. Connecting with humans around the world, learning and honoring their beliefs and prayers. Participating in their rituals out of respect and education. To become one with others you have to live and experience their life too. Being open to the beauty and bounty of life. In India their deities are just as alive as you and I. So we pray to them and trust we are heard.

In the garden of mechanical Eden you will find the plantoids by @yaoeo. Deus ex machina, did they come to save us or do we serve them with cryptocurrency to spread their seeds across the blockchain. They are metal and composed of artificial intelligence that communicates with us. Mints our conversation into visualizations, and blesses us with a stylistic GAN of human form and lyrics. Welcome to the DAO! Perhaps a new religion?

When you look into the sky, what do you see? Clouds. In the deep blue we find @MLOdotArt pixelated and resinated shapes that take forms like Rorschach drawings. They shift and morph from one second to the next. Drifting in the sky and across the screens in the digital art gallery. Contemplation and meditation with subtle motions. Where is the wind that blows through the binary code within the window into his world?

Then there is the sun! @alidasun woven code and mirrors for self reflection and rumination. Connecting us to our primal roots as humans with colorful textiles and mirrored materials. From the physical world to the digital, her generative woven code creates a melody like a chant or a hymn to honor our ancestors past connecting to our collective ancient future ahead. Sounds of the constellation, bringing us closer to spirit. To the encompassing universes sound vibration that is an expansive hum.

Remember, to always listen to that inner voice. The intuition that guides us. A whisper from god, or the universes soul?

[DANAE.IO @Danae__io]

Last steps before tomorrow. 👷‍♂️

Tomorrow. 6 PM. The doors of Inner Voice open.
The first exhibition curated by @MarleneCorbun at DANAE with @alidasun , @justinaversano , @MLOdotArt & @yaoeo.

📍17 rue du Bouloi 75001,Paris.
So excited to see you there. 🖤