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DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe is 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.
DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe brings together three major, feature-length video works in Lu Yang’s ongoing DOKU cycle. In 306 Maujer, DOKU the Self (2022) and DOKU the Flow (2024) are displayed within a landscape installation that suggests a continuation of the garden just beyond th…
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DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe is 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.
DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe brings together three major, feature-length video works in Lu Yang’s ongoing DOKU cycle. In 306 Maujer, DOKU the Self (2022) and DOKU the Flow (2024) are displayed within a landscape installation that suggests a continuation of the garden just beyond th…
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