Interactive installation by Eunjo Lee that fuses 3D-printed clay sculptures with digital design, inspired by the V&A's Buddhist art collection, within V&A x LDF 2026.
Eunjo Lee has a new installation, When the Void Gazes Back, on at the V&A South Kensington until Sunday 18 October. It's part of V&A x LDF 2026, the museum's contribution to the London Design Festival, and sits within the Digital Art Season 'On Agency'.
The work takes its starting point from the V&A's Buddhist art collection. Lee imagines a future where AI's growing agency and its use of data reshape spiritual awakenings and non-human consciousness, and she pulls in Buddhist concepts of Zen, karma and impermanence to frame digital, shamanistic deities as ever-changing cosmic worlds. Those deities appear as sculptures, partially 3D printed from recycled clay and embedded with interactive design elements that invite you into a reflective dialogue. Lee is an artist and filmmaker based in London and Seoul, and she's known for using gaming-graphics software to build complex worlds, which comes through here in the way she blends ancient heritage with contemporary tech.
It's a collaborative piece, and the credits list a fair few names alongside Lee: Josef Stöger on digital ceramics, Kiryung Arrddon Nam on interactive development, Gunho Hyun on music, Harry Charlton on sound design and Steph Hartop on voiceover. The whole thing was curated by Carrie Chan and produced by Faunsia Tucker.
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If you're around on Saturday 17 October, there's an artist talk from 14:00 to 16:00 in the Hochhauser Auditorium, Learning Centre, Level 1, where Lee can talk through the work in person. The installation itself is in Europe 1600-1815, Room 4, The Globe, and it's free to see, so you can drop in whenever suits you before it closes on Sunday.
