Awarded exhibition bridges tech and spirit in Beijing

They each suggested four relevant artists whom they know personally or through friends and then started researching their work and lives. Through interviews and in-person visits, they found that those artists, though from different backgrounds, had shockingly similar answers to questions such as how to balance making a living and art creation, how to deal with a plethora of information every day, and how to tackle the pressure caused by social media.

"We saw an inherent connection among the work of those artists faced with a similar predicament in today's globalized world and they try to navigate their predicament by resorting to either modern technology or invisible spiritual forces," Gan said.