Sleepy Time

Date: 2024.11.05-12.25
Venue: Ruining Road No.111, Xuhui District, Shanghai

START Museum presents the first museum solo exhibition of artist Ao Jing, titled “Sleepy Time”. This exhibition marks the debut case study under the museum’s newly initiated “Zero Degree Sculpture Project”. The exhibition will feature over 10 sculptures and spatial installations created by Ao Jing over the past year, displayed at the Start Square and the R space.

The “Zero Degree Sculpture Project” arises from the START MUSEUM’s infinite imagination and reverence for the human sculptural system. The vision pursued by this initiative aims to transcend conventional perceptions, definitions, and historiographical judgments of sculpture. This is also one of the six important directions of START MUSEUM’s long-term research projects.

Ao Jing is a “non-standard” artist. Her work resembles a discovery—an exploration of the primal beauty and spatial relationships inherent in ready-made materials.In her artistic practice, the artist introduces not only material forms and characteristics but also sound and time. She allows for the sounds produced by the collisions of materials and embraces their natural decay or transformation in the process of existence—this, too, is something she anticipates.