“Zombie snails, corpselike avatars, pop-up adverts, psy-ops, and puppeteers are mashed together in lurid, virtuosic animations that capture the apocalyptic mood—and visual slop—of the incipient AI era.”
– Critic
Patrick Langley, parsing the CGI grotesqueries on display in
Li Yi-Fan’s “
Last Warning.” The Taiwanese artist’s solo exhibition at the IAC Villeurbanne (FR) brings together recent videos and installations rooted in online culture and cutting-edge gaming software. “Technology here emerges as a deeply ambivalent force, empowering its users while at the same time trapping them in convoluted, panoptical prisons.”
