Museum of the Moving Image will present The Great Adventure of Material World (2019–2020) by LU Yang (ACC 2013), one of the artist’s most intricate and conceptually ambitious projects. This marks the work’s first presentation in a U.S. museum.

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.