SALON PERVERSE
An intimate, interdisciplinary series exploring the aesthetics of desire.
Welcome to Salon Perverse—a curated cultural salon where art, language and cinema converge to examine the rich and often transgressive terrain of kink, power and erotic imagination.
Salon Perverse offers participants an immersive and intellectually engaging experience through art, talks, writing workshops and film screenings. We invite you to think critically, feel deeply and explore the layered relationships between sexuality, identity and creative expression.
This is not spectacle. This is study. This is play. This is practice.
⟡ CURATED FILM SCREENING: Speculative Intimacies: The Worlds of Yarli Allison & Letizia Miro
From underground exploitation cinema to avant-garde erotica, each screening is selected for its historical, aesthetic or sociopolitical relevance to the evening’s theme. Post-film discussions provide context and critique, fostering collective analysis and conversation
This screening highlights the moving image works of Canadian-born Hong Kong artist Yarli Allison, centering their long-standing collaboration with writer and activist Letizia Miro.
At the heart of these works is a commitment to speculative world-building as a method for imagining radical futures. These are not utopias of escape, but intimate, insurgent visions—where repair, rebellion, and relationality take centre stage, and where the intersections of gender, intimacy, labour, and care are sensitively probed.
Letizia Miro is a London and Barcelona-based artist and writer exploring themes of desire, embodiment, power, and dissident sexualities through video, writing, and visual arts. Her work navigates the intersection of dissident sexualities and existential conditions, addressing intimacy, autonomy, and the material conditions of erotic capital. Featured in exhibitions at the V&A, ICA London, and Gallery 35m2 in Prague, and published in Propel Magazine, Glanta, and Kritiker, she creates provocative, politically charged narratives.
Yarli Allison (she/they) is a Canadian-born, Hong Kongese artist based in London, UK, working across sculpture, installation, CGI (VR/AR/3D/game), moving images, drawing, poetry, tattooing, and performance.
Yarli earned an MFA with first-class honours in Sculpture from The Slade School of Fine Art. Their work has been exhibited at Tai Kwun Contemporary (HK), FACT (Liverpool), Barbican Centre, ICA, and V&A Museum (London).
La Metro is a queer artist, researcher, and activist. They position themself as a pro-sex, pro-rights, and anti-racist activist, working from an embodied lens to create embodied-visual devices that weave feminist and queer f(r)ictions through archival art, performance, audiovisual work, fanzines, digital art, installation, and artistic mediation. They have produced embodied-sensual research laboratories through performance and pole dance. They are currently developing their doctoral thesis in Artistic Creation, on an archive on Barcelona’s Sex Worker Feminism with the aim of documenting collective memory, honoring their resilience, and combating all stigmas. They are currently in residency at the factory of creation La Escocesa in Barcelona.
For the intellectually curious, the aesthetically inclined and the respectfully perverse.
18+ | Consent-centered | All genders, orientations and experience levels welcome