A new exhibition titled *Metamorphosis: Beyond the Real. Searching for Victoria Lu – When Humans and AI Think Together, the Story Begins* has opened at Ca' Foscari Esposizioni in Venice, running parallel to the 2026 Venice Biennale. The show centers on Victoria Lu, a pioneering Chinese curator whose five-decade career helped shape contemporary Asian art. It features archival materials, AI-generated works, and collaborative experiments exploring the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence.
The exhibition matters because it reframes curatorial practice for the AI era, proposing a new hybrid role—'curategist'—that blends curating, narration, technology, and cultural strategy. By positioning Lu as both a historical figure and a contemporary subject, the show raises urgent questions about authorship, creativity, and the future of exhibition-making in a world increasingly shaped by machine intelligence.