Multimedia artist Lu Yang will be opening their solo exhibition 'The Great Adventure of Material World (2019-2020) at the Museum of Moving Image, New Yrok City, from 26 September, 2025 through 22 March, 2026.
This marks the work's first presentation in a U.S museum and one of the artist's most intricate and conceptually amibitous projects to date.
The work follows an androgynous protagonist, Material World Knight, through distinct episodes that move between conflict, transformation, and renewal, echoing samsara, the ceaseless cycle of birth, death and rebirth across different planes of existence. The work brings together Buddhist cosmology with visual strategies drawn from video games, anime and science fiction, reflecting Lu Yang's ongoing interest in multiplicity, embodiment, and perceptual change.
