Fondation Louis Vuitton
TO PROMOTE CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL ART
The Fondation Louis Vuitton grounds its commitment to the contemporary arts within an historical perspective. The LVMH Group and its companies opened a new chapter in their history of patronage with the creation of the Fondation. The building itself was inaugurated on 24 October 2014, the result of nearly 25 years of commitment to the arts, culture and heritage.
Open Space #14
For Open Space #14, LuYang presents Doku The Flow, a film were we follow the new adventures of DOKU, a character whose name is inspired by the phrase ‘’Dokusho Dokushi’’ meaning in Japanese “We are born alone, and we die alone”.
The character DOKU is a digital shell, a virtual human whose digital assets the artist has been building for nearly five years, as a reincarnation of himself in a parallel universe - an extension of his soul into the digital realm. Building upon his ongoing interest in the digitization of the human body and mind, Yang’s own body provides the template for this virtual human whose ‘’memories’’ form the core of DOKU’s second narrative film.
DOKU The Flow draws upon the Buddhist philosophy of Madhyamika, which contends that all phenomena are devoid of ‘’nature’’, ‘’substance’’, and ‘’essence’’. In non-linear sequences of lusciously complex 3D-animation, Yang’s DOKU slips in and out of various digital skins to surpass conventional reality and arrive at the ultimate truth of emptiness.
DOKU The Flow was produced with the support of the Fondation.
Curators
Claudia Buizza and Ludovic Delalande (Fondation Louis Vuitton)