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Console Spirituality
Curated by LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop)
Feral File
June 24 2025
press release (abridged)
Opening June 24th on Feral File, Console Spirituality is curated by LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop), a Paris- and Tokyo-based duo whose practice centers on digital art, internet culture, and video games. Their curatorial approach draws from gaming subcultures, technostalgia, and worldbuilding—exploring how the narrative structures and symbolic systems of games shape digital visual culture and challenge the conventions of contemporary art.
The exhibition brings together five artists working at the intersection of game logic, glitch aesthetics, and digital mythmaking. Works by Emi Kusano, Keiken & Gabriel Massan, John Provencher, and Sabato Visconti channel the emotional power and ritual intensity of video games—and they’re so much more than images. Each is a portal into worlds shaped by identity, memory, technostalgia, and speculative faith. Born from the same conditions that have made gaming a dominant cultural form of the 21st century, these artworks glitch existing systems, render new ones, and ask what it means to make art in an age when our gods are avatars and our temples are rendered in Unity.
Long embraced by experimental creators, art games and game-informed practices remain undervalued within contemporary art. But as a generation raised on game logic begins to shape the art world—both as artists and collectors—the visual language and systems thinking of games are becoming central to how culture is made, experienced, and understood. Console Spirituality foregrounds this evolution, positioning gaming’s thematic and aesthetic frameworks not as peripheral gestures, but as a foundational layer in the evolving landscape of contemporary art.
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