On January 20th, 2023, over 6,000 people attended multimedia artist Lu Yang's exhbition 'LuYang Vibratory Field' at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland on Museum Night, making it the most viewed work in a single night throughout the exhibitions history.
Curated by Elena Filipovic, Vibratory Field fetures a range of Lu Yang's signature body of work, including animation, avatars, and video games. Across multiple rooms, viewers entered the depths of a digital realm, or according to the exhibition organisers "a spectacualr computer-generated cosmos."
To enter the exhibition is to find oneself in a dimly lit temple of sorts. It is lined with flags and banners in the spirit of a religious festival, with four altars flanking its sides. Each of these serves as a viewing station featuring an individual work made by the artist in the years just after he graduated from art school. And each of these depicts different epic battles between neuroscience and religion—with the titles hinting at their darkly humorous gatherings of “wrathful gods” and “transcranial exorcisms.”
Vibratory Field is on view until 21 May, 2023.
