David Douard, Optimized Heart, exhibition view, UCCA, Aranya Gold Coast, Beidaihe, China (2023). Courtesy of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Photo: Sun Shi.
For the exhibition Optimized Heart, David Douard and Liu Shiyuan find new connections and inspirations within the context of each other’s practices. The two artists have long adhered to mixed-media based creation, combining images, installations, and sculptures.
Through their artistic dialogue—whether textual, pictorial, or acoustical—Douard and Liu present a poetic and imaginative world to the audience. They invite people to reflect on how information dissemination, images of consumption, and digital governance shape affects and epistemology in our social life.
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