Artist uses mirrors to show lines blurring between real and virtual

A photo taken at artist Deng Guoyan's Noah's Garden in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Before the show in Beijing, Noah's Garden was put up in an exhibition hall at the Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin in June.

Deng says he was surprised when he was requested to put up the installation at the economic meeting. But after he learned that the theme of the event was the "fourth industrial revolution and its transformational impact", he understood why he was called upon to show his work at the event.

"People now worry about our environment that is being destroyed by industrialization. My garden is a kind of spiritual return and else a warning," says Deng.

Deng first developed Noah's Garden in 2014, but it was much smaller than the one displayed in Beijing.

Then, in August, when the installation was at the Tianjin port awaiting shipment to Japan for an art biennial, it was destroyed in a massive warehouse explosion.