Exhibition

Journey to Mount Kailash

Journey to Mount Kailash was presented at MyPrecious Art Space in Beijing from February to March 2025. The exhibition brought together photography, physical form, and spatial reconstruction developed through repeated fieldwork around Mount Kailash.

The project began with a 12,000-kilometre overland journey from Beijing to Mount Kailash in 2023. A return visit in 2024 added photography and spatial data. Across three focused expeditions, the mountain and its surrounding region were approached as a physical place, an image, and a cultural landscape.

Three connected bodies of work

Thirteen photographic works

Thirteen photographs were selected from the wider Mount Kailash archive and presented as fine-art prints. The sequence moved between the mountain itself, surrounding lakes and peaks, changing weather, difficult roads, and the human effort of reaching and observing the landscape.

An illuminated mountain

A sculptural light work translated the form of Mount Kailash into a small physical object. Its mountain body was developed from three-dimensional terrain work and produced through digital fabrication, bringing geographic data into a domestic scale of light, material, and touch.

The work explored the idea of Mount Kailash as a luminous or crystal mountain while remaining visibly connected to the recorded form of the place.

Virtual and mixed-reality studies

Field data from the broader Mount Kailash region supported experiments in photogrammetry, terrain reconstruction, Gaussian splatting, and virtual presentation. The exhibition introduced this continuing work as a way of experiencing spatial relationships that a single photograph cannot contain.

These studies remain in development. They are presented as visual research rather than as a finished public VR or mixed-reality product.

From journey to continuing practice

The exhibition connected direct observation in the field with photographic prints, physical objects, and digital environments. That relationship continues across MTDD's photography, visual-product research, and imaging software work.

The project also established a practical question that continues to guide the company: how can a place move between image, object, and interface without losing the conditions and context that made it meaningful?

Preserved exhibition archive

The original About MTDD page contains the fuller exhibition record, including installation photographs, physical-product details, and visual-development material. It remains available at its original public address so that existing links and the original presentation are preserved.