Solo Exhibition ShanghART M50, Shanghai
Opening: July 10, 2025
Duration: July 10, 2025 – August 30, 2025 (Tue. to Sat., 11 am - 6 pm)
Location: ShanghART M50, 101 Building 16, 50 Moganshan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai
ShanghART Gallery is honoured to present artist Xue MU’s first solo exhibition in China, “There is A Garden”, on view from July 10 to August 30, 2025, at the gallery’s M50 space in Shanghai. Taking “garden” as the authentically embedded place between the mundane and the miraculous, the artist unfolds an unusual encounter that expands her conception of existence in the summer of 2005. This exhibition systematically presents her endeavoured explorations of experiencing the quotidian through painting, photography, installation, and more, reflecting on the circumstances of the gradually homogenised and diminished individual’s perceptible independence caused by the impact of technology and consumerism.
“Garden” in this exhibition, sensed as a field of botanical imagery, is a liminal space of a dynamic multidimensional Umwelt imbued with vitality, tension, and growth in order to evoke existential awareness to transcend experience. Each work is not only a carrier of the artist’s ineffable personal sensation, but also intertwines with the commonly shared, metaphorical visuals imprinted in the collective unconsciousness of hope and suffering. It encompasses the coordinates of the individual in time and space, allowing them to mirror, associate, and interpret. With the aid of technological force, some of the work subverts the trained visual inertia to tread a path for perceiving states that are more authentic and yet overly theorised.
In an era where technology deeply mediates sensory input becomes increasingly standardised, MU’s work presents an enclave for perception. She views artmaking as a channel for exploring the inner life essence and expanding the possibilities of life experience. Through a generative approach, she freely internalises the ambient energy, frequencies, living and non-living things, and ultimately transforms them into visual expressions that challenge habitual modes of apprehension. This exhibition invites viewers to step into a “garden of perception,” temporarily setting aside the expected everyday experiences to explore the quintessence hidden in fragility and subtlety.
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