Toward a New Aesthetics Venice

Toward a New Aesthetics

—An Emotional, Relative, and Generative Approach to Design and Visual Culture

Time Space Existence Architecture Biennial, Venice

20 May – 26 November 2023

Hand-painted mural, video

Palazzo Mora/European Cultural Centre

Venice, Italy

Duyi Han presents Toward a New Aesthetics which attempts to introduce a worldview and design approach based on emotion. Learning from art history, neuroscience, psychology, physics, and questions about humans and the universe, Duyi Han constructs a new perspective of viewing the relationship between humans and their visual environment, illustrated by work examples from the past five years.

The installation consists of a hand-painted mural and a video. With East Asian, especially Tibetan, visual elements, the mural presents Duyi Han’s worldview of design and visual culture. Executed in ten days on site by Duyi Han, the mural, through its handcraft imperfection and aged surfaces, is intended to allow visitors to feel the density of time and a connection with a higher dimension of time, space, and existence.