Jane Lombard (Booth 326)
“Six spectacular lightboxes by the Shanghai-based artist LuYang, who veers between male and female pronouns, remedy the shortage of digital works in the fair. They stage the artist (who is also in the Venice Biennale) as Doku, an avatar developed with a whole scientific and animation team, in some wild situations — there’s a great severed head — that mine punk and K-pop, manga and mythology. The scenes correspond to Buddhist realms of rebirth — a hopeful outlook, perhaps, given the world’s general trajectory.” - Siddartha Mitter
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