Lu Yang DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe

The first institutional solo exhibition in New York by Lu Yang, whose practice in 3D animation and video installation examines the limits of identity, consciousness, and embodiment in a digitized world. The exhibition centers on DOKU, a virtual avatar modeled on the artist's own body and face. Referencing the Japanese Buddhist phrase dokusho dokushi—'We are born alone, and we die alone'—DOKU serves as both a personal surrogate and philosophical vessel, navigating a cosmos where spiritual belief, neuroscience, and technological mediation converge.