Wrap yourself in comfort with this lightweight jacket featuring King of the Underground Peonies, 2024, by Lu Pingyuan. In Lu Pingyuan’s recent works he treats artificial intelligence as a quasi-deity in a new ‘belief system’. Lu feeds ChatGPT original stories and traditional myths, prompting the generation of new mythological figures. These are thenmaterialisedthrough traditional paper-cutting techniques historically associated with ritual and summoning. By positioning himself as an intermediary – translating between human belief systems and machine-generated knowledge – Lu stages a dialogue between ancient creeds and emergent, technologically inspired ideologies, asking how faith and meaning might be produced in an age shaped by algorithms.
King of theUndergroundPeonies, 2024
from the seriesBest of the Best Draw 2024–
one size fits most (60cm nape to hem, 140cm chest, 31cm sleeve) made in New Zealand
