Neuroaesthetics – the study of how visual arts, music and dance affect the human brain and cognition – may be a relatively new scientific field, but its outsized influence is already making waves with a new generation of creatives.
Exhibit A is the Chinese artist Duyi Han. A 2019 Cornell architecture graduate and alumnus of Herzog & de Mueron’s Basel HQ, he’s had a busy 2024, having collaborated with Dior on a mesmeric iteration of the iconic Lady Dior bag, and staging group exhibitions with Vienna’s 74tharts. And if you need more proof of his credentials, one of his pieces – Oxytocin cabinet – is already in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
