Monijian: Dream
Beijing
October 26th - December 8th, 2024
Monijian: Dream
Artists: Monijian
Exhibition：Dream
Duration：October 26th - December 8th, 2024
Opening: 4:00 PM, Saturday, October 26th, 2024
The works presented in this exhibition belong to the latter category. Compared to the impromptu site-specific creations in public spaces, these pieces involve more thoughtful processes and longer production periods. However, in the choice of subjects and materials, they retain an element of chance and spontaneity. It is precisely within this randomness that the artist encounters stimuli deeply rooted in personal experience, guiding him to complete the works and ultimately endowing each piece with its own unique story.
In addition to installations and sculptures, the exhibition will feature over ten newly created paintings by the artist. Although originally trained as a painter, Monijian has continued to create paintings quietly alongside his more guerrilla-style street interventions. These works depict sculptures in public spaces, most of which are fragmented animals set against plant-filled backgrounds. Monijian paints intuitively, without regard for form, concept, or technique. These paintings, similarly fragmented, establish a certain unity and complementarity with his sculptural installations.
The fragmented details are what fill and constitute our lives, just like Monijian’s works. While deeply reliant on personal experience, the materials and sources of inspiration come from public spaces, thus maintaining a connection to broader public consciousness and universality. We live amidst these fragments and universals, much like in a dream—sometimes grand but elusive, sometimes minute yet real...
ABOUT ARTIST
Monijian born in Urumqi, Xinjiang in 1992, graduated from the Department of Painting at Xinjiang Normal University in 2014. He currently lives and works in Chengdu, Sichuan.
Monijian engages in on-site creation by constantly walking, observing, and collecting remnants of public space. He transforms these materials into indoor sculptures presented in exhibition halls, seeking to explore the potential attributes beyond the surface of objects and the different relationships between them.
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