Lu Yang, DOKU the Self, 2022, Video, Music composer and producer: liiii, Sound effect and mastering: Woody Du, Trumpet and flugelhorn: feng, Narration: Takano Shinya

Religious worldviews have also been interpreted by digital technology. From China, Lu Yang showcases the video DOKU the Self (2022) wherein his own avatar travels through a spiritual dimension of the Buddhist spiritual world, and examines the human body, spirt and identity. The concept is inspired by Mahayana Buddhist scripture The Infinite Life Sutra. Lu has participated in the Venice Biennale 2022 and was awarded the BMW Art Journey in 2019 and the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year in 2022.

Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer, 2023, 4-channel video installation, Courtesy: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

In a large deep blue room, an expansive video installation combines choreography, animation, and kaleidoscopic computer-generation. Jacolby Satterwhite from Colombia incites parallel fields among formal art, gaming, mantras, and dances in religious settings in A Metta Prayer (2023). Also religion-inspired, the presentation echoes Buddhist Metta prayers and the formal language of Renaissance paintings. Images of Afrofuturism and African-American ideals of a liberated future are also seen. One feels caught in a sea of multi-dimensional imagination.

Anicka Yi, Wñ†§ñ0§R§, 2024, Courtesy: Gladstone Gallery © Anicka Yi / ARS, New York / JASPAR, Tokyo, 2024 G3616

An intriguing sculptural work suspended from the ceiling, Radial Sensation (2023) from the Radiolaria series by Anicka Yi, also from Korea, consists of actual radiolaria (ancient unicellular marine organisms that produce mineral skeletons) eerily gyrating in wormlike motion. The striking piece symbolizes the principles of biological life that Yi further expounds with the fusion of technology. Accompanying it are “algorithmic” paintings, such as Wñ†§ñ0§R§ (2024) and Öñ0K×ñ£0K×ñ (from the series “Kñ†M£M [Quantum Foam]”, 2024 devoted to the artist’s years of laboratory research with data.