Project ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai
Mo Nijian takes walking as the point of departure for his practice, repeatedly moving through, pausing within, and observing urban neighborhoods. He gathers discarded objects from public space and brings them into new material contexts, where they are transformed and presented as a group of indoor sculptures within the exhibition space. For the artist, objects are not confined to their surface functions or forms; once removed from their original order, they gradually reveal unnamed properties and looser, more open relations with other objects.
Platform Project 7th, Afterparty, refers to the temporal and spatial condition that follows the end of an event: when gatherings disperse and functions withdraw, what remains begins to come into view. In this project, Mo Nijian deliberately compresses the conditions of production to a minimal scale, making use, as much as possible, of the gallery’s existing tools and materials. He understands the gallery as the terminal point of the art production chain—a site commonly regarded as a place of outcome and display—and takes this terminal position as the starting point for creation. Through materials and objects left behind during the gallery’s relocation, the artist reactivates these “terminal” remnants, responding to spatial shifts and the ongoing process of moving. Uncertainty and the possibility of failure are retained as part of the method, allowing the practice itself to continue speaking.
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