Lu Yang's DOKU The Illusion opens at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia this week, timed to the 61st Venice Biennale. The installation extends the Shanghai-based artist's ongoing DOKU series, a digital avatar modeled on Lu Yang's own face that has been the subject of films, sculptures, and immersive environments since 2020. This latest chapter mixes AI-generated visuals with Buddhist iconography and gaming-world aesthetics, continuing the franchise's interest in consciousness, mortality, and digital selfhood.
For Louis Vuitton, the commission is another entry in the Espaces program, which stations artist projects in the brand's cultural spaces globally. For Lu Yang, it is the highest-profile Western platform to date for work that has circulated primarily through Asian biennials and digital art fairs. The Biennale timing puts DOKU in front of the institutional-collector circuit at peak attention.