Lu Yang – Digital Descending

Shanghai-based Lu Yang is taking the international art scene by storm, and ARoS is now presenting the artist's first solo exhibition at a European art museum.

Lu Yang uses Japanese manga aesthetics, temple gables, the internet and electronic music as her imagery, and she is fascinated by Japanese pop culture, Eastern religions and philosophies, gender identity and sexuality, brain science, and bodily representation in the gaming subculture.

The various works in the exhibition feature the artist's gender-neutral avatar in both previous versions and the brand new hyper-realistic avatar DOKU, the protagonist of the work DOKU - 6 Realms of Reincarnation. Lu Yang calls it a digital reincarnation because the artist created DOKU based on a high-tech facial scan of his own face that reproduces expressions almost 100 per cent.

Multimedia artist Lu Yang (born 1984) creates imaginative, disturbing and shocking works that reflect an interdisciplinary blend of religion, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and modern technology, referencing ways of life and structures of both natural and religious origin. The results of Lu Yang's artistic practice include computer game systems, 3D animated films, computer game installations, holograms, motion capture performance works, virtual reality and software-based manipulations. The artist also collaborates with renowned scientists, psychologists, performers, designers, experimental composers, music producers, robotics companies and pop stars.

S.C. Van fonden

Beckett Fonden

Knud Højgaards Fond

William Demant Fonden

Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Fond

Statens Kunstfond