Brooklyn Museum Acquires Duyi Han’s "Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment" Series

BANK is very excited to announce that the Brooklyn Museum, New York, has acquired a set of multiple works from Duyi Han's Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment series for its permanent collection.
Presented by BANK at Art Basel Paris 2025, Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment reflects on the relationship between mental health and visual culture. Embroidered onto silk furniture and sculptural objects, pharmaceutical compounds, ritual symbolism, and ornamental traditions are brought into a shared visual language that reconsiders historical visual traditions through a contemporary lens. The series explores how these inherited forms continue to shape experiences of care and psychological reflection.
The acquisition of one set of the furniture marks an important institutional milestone for a practice that has gained international recognition for its distinctive synthesis of contemporary art, design, and neuroaesthetic inquiry. The acquisition was supported by multiple departments at the museum including Contemporary Art, Arts of Asia, and Decorative Arts and Design. With a background in architecture, Duyi Han creates objects, textiles, images, and spatial environments that investigate how visual forms mediate perception, emotion, and cultural memory. His work has been presented internationally and is held also in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the White Rabbit Collection (Sydney).
The artist and BANK would like to extend special gratitude to Annie B Taylor, Brooklyn Museum Advisory Board Co-Chair, for her helping to make this acquisition possible.