Simulacra: Nina Davies, Hu Junzhuo, Chanel Khoury, Stefan Reiterer, Bai Yiyi
Simulacra
Nina Davies · Hu Junzhuo · Chanel Khoury · Stefan Reiterer · Bai Yiyi
September 11 – October 18, 2025
Future Gallery is pleased to present Simulacra, an exhibition that considers how images and spaces are constructed, mediated, and transformed in the digital age. The works on view explore a world in which representation no longer points back to an original but becomes its own reality—shaping how we see, move, and imagine
The exhibition traces a spectrum of encounters between the digital and the material. At one end, Nina Davies examines predictive frameworks derived from virtual environments—video games and viral TikTok dances—that reveal how algorithms quietly choreograph our gestures, rituals, and even futures. At another, Hu Junzhuo layers digital mosaics to simulate the blending of photons and particles, evoking the microscopic illusions that underpin perception itself.
Where perception becomes tactile, Chanel Khoury translates immaterial digital landscapes into oil painting. Her luminous canvases transform fleeting virtual mirages into physical surfaces, bridging the ancient craft of painting with the ephemerality of the screen. A related tension unfolds in the work of Stefan Reiterer, who manipulates satellite maps and 3D modeling until they dissolve into abstract yet strangely familiar forms. His Templates series underscores how digital imaging reshapes spatial perception while opening ambiguous fields of interpretation.
Bai Yiyi, meanwhile, mines the textures of industrial communication—offset printing dots, cinematic blur, static, and pixelation—to create paintings that fracture and recombine narrative. His surfaces reflect how screen aesthetics shape collective identity and mediate our relation to the world.
What unites these practices is an attention to thresholds where realities overlap: the microscopic with the monumental, the fictional with the everyday, the digital with the material. Simulacra reveals how contemporary image worlds do not merely reflect experience but actively construct it, leaving perception layered, unstable, and perpetually in flux.
