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For the 2018 edition of West Bund Art & Design, Capsule Shanghai is pleased to present “Cyborg Dates” - a corporeal coupling of works from American artist Douglas Rieger, here at his debut in China, and Chinese artist Wang Haiyang.

The exhibition, co-curated by artist Sarah Faux, features a group of Rieger’s anthropomorphic sculptures and a selection of Wang’s pastel works paired with their latest animated version.

As humans use technology to animate the inanimate, they lose parts of their humanity to machines. The cyborg, half-human and half-machine, embodies the union of the familiar …