EXHIBITIONSThus Spoke The Moment – Inaugural Exhibition Season 2

Start Museum is pleased to present the exhibitions “Thus Spoke The Moment – Inaugural Exhibition Season 2,”  “Genealogy Study of Artists No. 15  Zhang Hui On Painting,” and “Genealogy Study of Artists No. 16 aaajiao: membrane” on display from August 27 to November 15, 2023.

Continuing from the brand-new structure and a “non-linear, non-thematic” narrative developed for the “START – Inaugural Exhibition Season 1”, exhibition, Thus Spoke The Moment brings together 27 historical landmark works by 21 artists. Unlike the first inaugural exhibition, Thus Spoke The Moment hopes to return the audience’s focus to the artists themselves and convey to their viewers an open-ended experience of art beyond perspective. The exhibition title “Thus Spoke The Moment” sees artists as a body of water, living within the gap of a scene.

Just like the bright stars glitter in the Milky Way, the most visible and influential artists in the international art world, artists Lin Tianmiao, Marina Abramović, Mona Hatoum, Issy Wood, Xu Bing, and Zhang Enli will have works exhibited in Start Museum. The “mother of performance art” – Marina Abramović met her most important partner Ulay (1943-2020) at the age of 22. Their 16mm masterpiece film Rest Energy is being projected for the first time at START Museum. This work instinctively tests the delicate relationship between performer and viewer. Created in 1995, The Proliferation of Thread Winding is one of Abramović’s most representative installation works. The simple and repetitive labor of entangled balls challenges the viewer’s endurance to a certain extent. Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 to a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to London shortly before the outbreak of the Lebanonese Civil War in 1975. Untitled (Wheelchair) was created after the artist moved to London, The whole work is made of cold metal, and the armrest is replaced by sharp knives. The intervention of these torture elements makes the wheelchair, which was supposed to provide convenience and play a protective role, an object full of danger and resistance.

On 27 August 2023, Genealogy Study of Artists No. 15 Zhang Hui On Painting and Genealogy Study of Artists No. 16 aaajiao: membrane will also be presented at Start Museum’s lower ground floor and second floor. Like a flourishing tree rooted in every inch of Start Museum’s ground, these two solo exhibitions will present 25 pieces of art, including paintings, moving images, installations and other diverse works for the audience respectively.

In the words of Start Museum Director He Juxing, art was conceived at the conception of human life, and will eventually fade away at the end of it. Start Museum sincerely invites you to visit the exhibition, experience the transience of the art works through history, and to let them become a bridge of dialogue between you and the artists across time, space and geography.