“Biyi Night Tour: the Local Unlimited Landscapes”2020-2021, digital, mixed media

“Biyi Night Tour: the Local Unlimited Landscapes”

2020-2021, digital, mixed media

In the year 756, General An Lushan defeated the troops of Emperor MingHuang, whose excessive love for his beautiful concubine Yang caused imperial duties to be neglected. The empress, known as the Beauty of Jade, was falsely accused of treason and executed. Forced into exile, MingHuang the Shining wasted away in lamentation. Months and years passed without this feeling disappearing. After six years of exile from his lands, the fallen emperor, whose passionate love remained immeasurable and pain inconsolable, was back in the Yunnan Valley. But the memory of his breathtaking beauty was still too present there and made his life without her unbearable. Alas, like a lost soul, he went in desperation to the magic mountain, with the mad hope of seeing his sweetheart again beyond the gates of Di-Yu, the Realm of the Dead…

Based on the well-known and evocative legend of the inseparable lovebird Biyi of China, this comic book derived from the background of the game. It tells the story of the Emperor Li Longji and Concubine Yang, who transformed into a pair of souls and travelled through ancient times, guiding villagers to fly over the gorges of a remote village in Yunnan to find the long-lost oasis of modern people.