Post-sense Sensibility-Trepidation and Will

On November 5, 2016, “Post-Sensibility: Fear and Will”, co-presented by Minsheng Art Museum (MOM), Beijing and Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum (SMCAM), will land on March 19, 2017 at SMCAM.

“Post-sense Sensibility” is an important artistic action in the history of Chinese contemporary art. The exhibition will retrace “Post-Sensibility”, an art movement that has had a significant impact on Chinese contemporary art after 2000 and in which many young artists were active, and the questions it raised. “Post-sense Sensibility” is a local experimental art practice that has lasted for more than 10 years, starting with the exhibition “Alien and Delusion” curated by Qiu Zhijie and Wu Meichun in 1999. Divided into two parts: works and documents, this exhibition will present the creations of the artists who have devoted themselves to “Post-sense Sensibility”, and will give a glimpse of the thoughts, discussions and actions that they have devoted themselves to with great enthusiasm. The exhibition also invites the works of young artists who have been active recently and whose creative concepts and actions are close to those of “Post-sense Sensibility”, in order to present an open and constantly defined “Post-sense Sensibility”.

Co-curated by Qiu Zhijie, one of the initiators of Post-Sensibility, and Guo Xiaoyan, Deputy Director of Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, the exhibition features 34 works by 29 artists, including 20 artists who have participated in previous Post-sense Sensibility exhibitions and 9 young artists. The exhibition features 34 works by 29 artists, including 20 artists who have participated in previous Post-sense Sensibility exhibitions and 9 young artists. As curator Qiu Zhijie puts it, “Post-sense sensibility is a constant withdrawal from identity and genre, a constant curation and initiation of the re-familiarization of self and experience. Post-sensibility is a mirror stage that has never been completed, an adolescence that has been indefinitely prolonged throughout one’s life”, and we expect this exhibition to contribute to the subsequent discussion of “post-sense sensibility”.

Unlike the exhibition at the Minsheng Art Museum in Beijing, MOCA will present a series of performances, lectures, and other activities centered on the topic of Post-sense sensibility.