
16/07/2025
📍Société
Lu Yang
DOKU the Creator – Bhavachakra
July 10 – August 30, 2025
Since 2018, Lu Yang has been developing the shapeshifting avatar DOKU in collaboration with a team of scientists, 3D animators, and digital technicians using the latest in motion capture technology. DOKU is a digital shell, a virtual human named after the phrase “Dokusho Dokushi,” meaning “We are born alone, and we die alone.” Yang describes DOKU a virtual avatar that traverses simulated realities, embodying the dissolution of fixed identity and the recursive nature of consciousness.
In DOKU the Creator – Bhavachakra, Lu Yang creates an otherworldly realm where digital identity, karmic recursion, creative generation, and simulated consciousness converge. Combining post-apocalyptic imagery with the vivid aesthetics of video games, manga, anime, and Buddhist spirituality, the exhibition draws connections between incarnations across virtual, corporeal, and spiritual realms—suggesting a future in which the self and its representations may be endlessly remade.
Credits:
Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin. Photos Joe Clark